“Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.”
— p. 9
“Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?”
— p. 50
“This is a huge nation dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world.”
— p. 72
“The mass psycho-social national cohesiveness has trembled on the brink of disruption and disintegration repeatedly over the last fifty years, threatening to fly apart from its own concentric inner dynamics. But at each crisis it was allowed to reform itself; with each reform, revolution became more remote.”
— p. 118
“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.”
— p. 121
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.”
— Letter to his parents from San Quentin Prison, 2 May 1965, in Soledad Brother (1970), p. 61

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