George Jackson (activist): Quotes about people

George Jackson (activist) was activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“This is a huge nation dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 72

People , World , History , Understanding

“The fascist arrangement tolerates the existence of no valid revolutionary activity. It has programmed into its very nature a massive, complex and automatic defense mechanism for all our old methods for raising the consciousness of a potentially revolutionary class of people. The essence of a U. S. A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 138

People , Nature

“Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 50

People

“Waiting for power to move to its inevitable collapse is suicidal for all concerned. Blacks and other Third World peoples have the very imminent prospect of genocidal tactics to contend with, and we can now all see that the modern industrial state, motivated by exclusive groups of capitalist masters, cannot regulate itself to make possible an inclusive production and distribution of goods, or production without a massive waste of resources and destruction of all that stands about. The debate ends, the action begins. It is not question of the necessity of violence, but of how to organize it.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 51

People , World , Motivation , Question

“There are no good aspects of monopoly capital, so no reservations need be recognized in its destruction. Monopoly capital is the enemy. It crushes the life force of all of the people. It must be completely destroyed, as quickly as possible, utterly, totally, ruthlessly, relentlessly destroyed.”

George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 109

Life , People