George Jackson Quotes

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
- George Jackson
(Related: Cowardice, Limits, Patience)

"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
- George Jackson
(Related: Nation, Reading, Repression)

"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."
- George Jackson
(Related: Beginning)

"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."
- George Jackson
(Related: Determination, Now)

"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty."
- George Jackson
(Related: Men, Passion)

"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
- George Jackson
(Related: Sense)

"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation."
- George Jackson
(Related: Knowledge, Army, Destruction, Living)