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The White Man has lost! We are an occupied people in our own land who must now develop a totally different outlook on revolution.

— Joseph Tommasi Strategy for Revolution (1974)

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No longer would we think in terms of obtaining political power. We would think, instead, of hurting the enemy through force and violence. We would build the armed struggle.

Strategy for Revolution (1974)

White people in America are not like those who participated in past European struggles. Americans tend to go against the "grain" on practically everything. We are not Europeans and won't respond as Europeans.

Building the Revolutionary Party (1974)

I wish INTERPOL was on our side; I wish we were being bought off by the police; we wouldn't be having all these money problems. I hear they pay pretty good.

Los Angeles Free Press interview (1975)

We think it better to go into an area where a lot of people hate us and a lot will love us, rather than go where no one gives a shit.

Los Angeles Free Press interview (1975)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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