Sekou Odinga quotes

“People don't even know that we have political prisoners.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.”
-- Sekou Odinga

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.”
-- Sekou Odinga

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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

“I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.”

“You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.”