I'm Involved In The Work

We Cannot Assume That People By Virtue Of The Fact That They Are Black Are Going To Associate Themselves With Progressive Political Struggles. We Need To Divest Ourselves The Kinds Of Strategies That Assume That Black Unity Black Political Unity Is Possible.

Our Leaders Were Assassinated, One Of The Things I Was Reading Today Was - 28 Panthers Were Killed By The Police But 300 Black Panthers Were Killed By Other Panthers Just Within - Internecine Warfare. It Just Began To Seem Like We Were In An Impossible Task Given What We Were Facing.

I Think The Importance Of Doing Activist Work Is Precisely Because It Allows You To Give Back And To Consider Yourself Not As A Single Individual Who May Have Achieved Whatever But To Be A Part Of An Ongoing Historical Movement.

Well For One, The 13th Amendment To The Constitution Of The Us Which Abolished Slavery - Did Not Abolish Slavery For Those Convicted Of A Crime.

In This Society, Dominated As It Is By The Profit-seeking Ventures Of Monopoly Corporations, Health Has Been Callously Transformed Into A Commodity - A Commodity That Those With Means Are Able To Afford, But That Is Too Often Entirely Beyond The Reach Of Others.