Huey Newton
“The task is to transform society; only the people can do that, not heroes, not celebrities, not stars. The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
An unharmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach them, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist, and finally left stranded on the streets, to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
Angela Davis
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept….. The ideas of freedom is inspiring, but what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? Freedom is a constant struggle.
Our interior emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves, and to our emotional life, has been produced elsewhere, and has recruited to do the work of racism and repression.
I feel that if we don’t take responsibility the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won’t ever succeed in eradicating racism.
Progressive art can assist people to learn, not only about the objective forces at work in which they live, but also about the intensity, and social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people towards social emancipation.”
Marcus Garvey
“You are masters of your own destiny, maters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence, and faith in self and reach for it.
The negro peoples of the world, should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation Africa.
We have come to the conclusion, that speedily there must be an emancipated Negro race everywhere; we go with our determination to lay down, if needs be, the last drop of our blood for the defence of Africa, and for the emancipation of our people.”
Queen Mother Moore
“The struggle is my life……. our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children, and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history, that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.
The Black Code Laws established the ‘Jim Crow’ and also established the fact that our people couldn’t vote.
People were run off their land by the Klan, there was a Great Depression, as far as the land question was concerned. We used to think it was only jealousy, but it was much deeper that that.”
A legendary figure in the Black Liberation Struggle & Movement. Mother Moore’s last public appearance was at the Million Man March in October 1995, America. She was one of 5 invited female speakers to address the historic demonstration.
Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan
“It is commonly said in some quarters that “Africa has Awakened.” This cannot be accepted by conscious Africans, for to have awakened, one must have been asleep.
Africa was not asleep. Africa was wide awake, but her land, as well as her sons and daughters, were subjected to the most barbarous treatment, man has ever imposed on man.
Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My lord, she’s a black woman. Without you, African mother, there would have been no us–African fathers, sons and daughters.
Do we need to say any more African mothers, our own true goddesses! Let us praise you to the highest, telling the world about your righteousness. Let us tell the entire universe about your sacredness African woman.”
To speak of Africa, you would have rinse your concept of the Virgin Mary, and understand that it’s nothing but a copy of Isis, and her husband, God Osiris. You will also have to go to the Nile Valley, to the temples there!”
Amy Jacques Garvey
“Africa must be for Africans, and negroes everywhere must be independent, God being our guide. My Black man, watch your step! Ethiopia Queen will reign again, and her amazons protect her shores and people.
Many a man has risen from the depths of poverty and obscurity, made his mark in life; because of the advice and councils of a good mother, whose influence guided his footsteps throughout his life.
Strengthen your shaking knees, and move forward, or we will displace you, and lead on to victory and glory.”
Dr. Leonard Jefferies Jr.
“The value system of our people is the three C’s — communal, cooperative and collective spiritual development.” That it came from Africa made it good; once it left it became evil.
Early Christians come into contact with the Africans of the Nile, so the first Christian nations are Greek, are Egypt and Ethiopia. And later the Prophet Mohammed. Comes into contact trying to raise Arabs from barbarity, comes into contact with the Nile Valley and then the synthesis becomes Islam.
African centeredness gives you all of these historical movements, that are of significance even to the Western world.” Team ACAP.