You Can Kill My Body, And You

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.

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.

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.

We Were Trying To Increase The Conflict That Was Already Happening... We Felt That We Would Take The Conflict To So High A Level That Some Change Had To Come.

The United States Can Hide Behind A Facade Simply Because It Is Sucking The Blood Of Other People...the Third World People: Africa, Asia And Latin America.