Fred Hampton (1948–1969) African-American activist
Excerpt from Fred Hampton - "Political Prisoner" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1gveC3GVs.
Excerpt from Fred Hampton - "Political Prisoner" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1gveC3GVs. <br class="br">Context: We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.
Fred Hampton (1948–1969) African-American activist
Excerpt from Fred Hampton - "Political Prisoner" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1gveC3GVs.
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Context: Black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we’ve been using toward getting our freedom. We want freedom now, but we’re not going to get it saying "We Shall Overcome". We’ve got to fight until we overcome.
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Remarks to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted in "Pelosi makes unannounced trip to Kyiv, becoming highest-ranking US official to meet with Zelensky since the war began" by Michelle Watson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/politics/pelosi-zelensky-kyiv-ukraine-intl/index.html] (1 May 2022)]; also in "Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine, says commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done'", Global News (1 May 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga34dmkMwBU
Jim Clyburn (1940) American politician
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/conor-lamb-aoc-democrats-fighting-socialism/617045/ The Democratic Truce Is Over
(November 10, 2020)
“We’re not going to climb that in the dark, are we?”
Samuel R. Delany book The Jewels of Aptor
asked Iimmi.
“Better than in the light,” said Urson. “This way you can’t see how far you have to fall.”
Source: The Jewels of Aptor (1962), Chapter IX (p. 108)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, August 2021 <br class="br">Source: Biden Weighs Speeding Up Booster-Shot Timeline by 3 Months https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/biden-says-u-s-considering-starting-booster-shots-earlier-ksujzrim (August 27, 2021)
“I wonder where we go when we die?”
“…Pittsburgh?”
“You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2022, March 2022 <br class="br">Source: Why Biden and the White House keep talking about World War III (March 17, 2022) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/why-biden-white-house-keep-talking-about-world-war-iii/