Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
The people who are running this planet are insane – they are literally destroying it. I don’t know where they think they’re gonna drink water, breathe air.
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
There is a down side to everything if you don’t understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.
I think it’s really hard to plan if you don’t believe you can implement those plans.
The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It’s because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Abraham Lincoln was in no way whatsoever a friend of Black people. He had little concern for our plight. In his famous reply to editor Horace Greeley in August, 1862, he openly stated: My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it and if i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.
The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.
I had grown up believing the slaves hadn’t fought back. I remember feeling ashamed when they talked about slavery in school.
When i think of how racist, how Eurocentric our so-called education in amerika is, it staggers my mind. And when i think back to some of those kids who were labeled “troublemakers” and “problem students,” i realize that many of them were unsung heroes who fought to maintain some sense of dignity and self-worth.
They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.
Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well.
I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.