The First Lesson A Revolutionary Must Learn

Sometimes If You Want To Get Rid Of The Gun, You Have To Pick The Gun Up.

White America Has Seen To It That Black History Has Been Suppressed In Schools And In American History Books. The Bravery Of Hundreds Of Our Ancestors Who Took Part In Slave Rebellions Has Been Lost In The Mists Of Time, Since Plantation Owners Did Their Best To Prevent Any Written Accounts Of Uprisings.

You Can Jail A Revolutionary But You Can't Jail The Revolution. You Can Run A Freedom Fighter Around The Country, But You Can't Run Freedom Fighting Around The Country. You Can Murder A Liberator, But You Can't Murder Liberation.

Iq Tests Are Routinely Used As Weapons Against Black People In Particular And Minority Groups And Poor People Generally. The Tests Are Based On White Middle-class Standards, And When We Score Low On Them, The Results Are Used To Justify The Prejudice That We Are Inferior And Unintelligent. Since We Are Taught To Believe That The Tests Are Infallible, They Have Become A Self-fulfilling Prophecy That Cuts Off Our Initiative And Brainwashes Us.

What I'm Really Trying To Say Is That I Believed An Armed Insurrection Could Work. After I Was Shot And Went To Prison, That Ended That Illusion. I Had Time To Think.