Sometimes If You Want To Get Rid

During Those Long Years In Oakland Public Schools, I Did Not Have One Teacher Who Taught Me Anything Relevant To My Own Life Or Experience. Not One Instructor Ever Awoke In Me A Desire To Learn More Or To Question Or To Explore The Worlds Of Literature, Science, And History. All They Did Was Try To Rob Me Of The Sense Of My Own Uniqueness And Worth, And In The Process Nearly Killed My Urge To Inquire.

You Can Jail A Revolutionary, But You Can't Jail The Revolution.

The Imperialistic Or Capitalistic System Occupies Areas. It Occupies Vietnam Now. They Occupy Them By Sending Soldiers There, By Sending Policeman There. The Policemen Or Soldiers Are Only A Gun In The Establishments Hand. They Make The Racist Secure In His Racism. The Gun In The Establishment's Hand Makes The Establishment Secure In Its Exploitation.

We Felt That The Police Needed A Label, A Label Other Than That Fear Image That They Carried In The Community. So We Used The Pig As The Rather Low-lifed Animal In Order To Identify The Police. And It Worked.

The Walls, The Bars, The Guns And The Guards Can Never Encircle Or Hold Down The Idea Of The People.