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It is not a question of the necessity of violence, but how to organize it to fit our unique situation, to tie it with flawless exactitude to our political activity, and to organize it immediately.

— George Jackson Blood in My Eye (1971)

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Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?

Blood in My Eye (1971)

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)

From its inception, the fascist arrangement has attempted to create the illusion of a mass society in which the traditional capitalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role.

Blood in My Eye (1971)

Top-heavy establishment organizations that exist openly are always a reflection of the men who staff them.

Blood in My Eye (1971)

The prestige of power as the subjective effect of a past deed or reputation, real or fancied, then has a very definite life process.

Blood in My Eye (1971)

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