Persons [ ] If you ain’t angry, you ain’t paying attention | Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“If you ain’t angry, you ain’t paying attention.”
“Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.”
“I was punished for communicating.”
“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.”
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”
“The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.”
“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.”
“Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.”
“I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.”
“I have learned not to do predictions. It’s not helpful, psychologically. I don’t sit and fret about things.”
(b.1954)
Political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
