Citas de Mumia Abu-Jamal

• When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
  just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die.
  And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
  justice.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Courage, Talking, Justice

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Dec 01, 2010

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Orden, Ley, Largo

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Arte, Creer, Gente

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011

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• If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Attention, Pay Attention, Angry

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• Los medios de comunicación, a su vez un brazo del poder megacorporativo, alimentan la industria del miedo, de modo que la gente se ceba como bombas para apoyar guerras basadas en rumores, insinuaciones, leyendas y mentiras.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  War, Lying, Media

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• Si sobreviven, los niños de hoy heredarán un mundo que nuestros padres y abuelos han devastado, donde los mares son pozos negros ácidos de los que han huido las ballenas, donde las selvas tropicales son recuerdos de la India que nunca volverán, y donde la codicia humana ha saqueado las entrañas de la Madre Tierra y ha convertido los genes humanos en fábricas de beneficios. Heredarán un planeta disminuido donde el agua dulce es cada vez más escasa, y donde el aire puro es una mercancía... Vivimos en un mundo que teme y odia a sus jóvenes. ¿Cómo explicar si no el legado de una herencia tan viciada, contaminada y hueca?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Madre, Hijos, Recuerdos

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• Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Self, Soul, Steel

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Insane, Claims

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• A riesgo de citar a Mefistófeles repito: Bienvenidos al infierno. Un infierno erigido y mantenido por gobiernos humanos, y bendecido por jueces vestidos de negro. Un infierno que te permite ver a tus seres queridos, pero no tocarlos. Un infierno situado en los boondocks de América, a cientos de kilómetros de la mayoría de las familias. Un infierno blanco y rural, donde la mayoría de los cautivos son negros y urbanos. Es una forma americana de morir.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Blessed, Government, White

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 10, 2011

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• Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Children, Opposites, Evil

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• The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Becoming One, Air, United States

  "Mumia Abu-Jamal: "The United States Is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth"". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 01, 2013.

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• Muy poca gente en prisión tiene voces que vayan más allá del muro. Es mi trabajo hacer el trabajo por ellos porque no tienen a nadie.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Jobs, Wall, Voice

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• The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Giving, States, Microphones

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011

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• I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Preparing For Death, Preparing

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 24, 2011

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• Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  People, Mind, This Generation

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• Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Ashes, Empires, Today

  "Finally, MLK Jr’s Revolution? Challenging Confederate Generals and US Generals Today" by Mark Lewis Taylor, www.counterpunch.org. August 29, 2017.

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• If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Constitution, Used, Ifs

  "Extended Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on New Pennsylvania Law Restricting Prisoners’ Speech". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 24, 2014.

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• here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Heart, Overcoming, Here And There

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.54, South End Press

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• The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Wall, Roles, Television

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 02, 2011

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• I was punished for communicating.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Comunicar

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• I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Party, Writing, School

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• Las personas libres tienen derecho a decidir por sí mismas lo que quieren oír.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Personas

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• Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Conventional Wisdom, Conventional

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• I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Helpful, Predictions, I Have Learned

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