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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He is a supporter of the MOVE Organization, and was also a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970 but left the party and became a radio reporter, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. After numerous appeals, his sentence was commuted in 2011 to life imprisonment without parole.

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I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

Bourgeois, Institution, Party, Political, School, Writing

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

Angry, Attention, Pay Attention, Paying

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

Against, Constitution, Ifs, Used

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

Arm, Innuendo, Lying, Media, Pumps, War

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

Decide, Free, People, Right, Want

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

Barrios, Heart, Here And There, Hope, Overcoming, Sparks

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

Lessons, Live, Mind, Minds, People, This Generation

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Days, Death, Preparing, Preparing For Death, Spend

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes

Ashes, Empire, Empires, Today

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Anger, Children, Evil, Hatred, Opposites, Time

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Art, Believe, Fact, People, Politics, Power

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Call, Fifth, Noise, Roles, Television, Wall

I was punished for communicating.

Communicate, Communicating, Punished

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Jobs, Prison, Voice, Wall, Work

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Believe, Conventional, Conventional Wisdom, Wisdom

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Seconds, Self, Soul, Steel, Umbrella

Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

Order, Law, Long, Nothing, Illusion