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Quotes from Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson — George Jackson

1941–1971 United States

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I'm convinced that it is the psychopathic personality that searches out a uniform. There's little doubt of what's going on in that man's head who will voluntarily don any uniform.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

The theory of an existing and benevolent god simply doesn't make sense to anyone who is rational. A benevolent and omnipotent god would never allow such imbalances as I see to exist for one second. If by chance I am wrong, however I must then assume that being born black called for some automatic punishment for sins I know nothing about, and being innocent it behooves me to defy god.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

Fortune must soon smile on me because sincere effort is always rewarded. Nature allows no such imbalances.. I am assured and completely self-possessed in he knowledge that all contradictions and conflicts must one day be resolved.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

If children being blown out of this existence while attending church services, men being lunched for a gesture, colonialism, the inquisition, and H-bombs haven't affected you, nothing I say h ere can help you. If you could live my life one week and see the things I see, feel the pain I feel, and die a little bit each day as I do all your illusions and apparitions would vanish.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Jackson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.