“Hierarchy has had six thousand years of trial. It will never succeed for long in any form. … My opinion is that we are at the historical climax (the flash point) of the totalitarian period.”

— George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 130

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activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Part… 1941–1971

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