If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?
. . . the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.
Either I act or I die.
I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.