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6 quotes by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an American former activist and journalist who was convicted and sentenced to death on July 3, 1982, for the December 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment without parole in December 2011 after District Attorney Seth Williams decided to end the pursuit of the death penalty with the support of the victim's family. Activists,...
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I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

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I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

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I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do... →

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The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

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Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

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You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country.

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