I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
