The fascists do not want to confront you unless they have overwhelming superiority. Our job is to organize all anti-racists and other allies to let them know that we will resist...by any means necessary, including armed struggle.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

I know some so-called radical will jump up and say that we already call for armed struggle against fascists. Well talk is cheap, and if the anti-fascists were halfway real, ARA leader Spit Newborn would still be walking around, instead of in his grave. Cast aside all illusions about working with the Oath Keepers and right-wing militias. they must be smashed.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Talk is cheap, until you have to confront armed fascists, throwing dynamite at your house, or shooting at you from ambush. And until you have faced it, then don't put people like me down with anti-fascist rhetoric.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Many of the fascists, especially the trained paramilitary will gun you down without a second thought. You won't get a chance to talk to them. You have to run for your life or shoot back.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

I have seen people killed by time-bomb setup by fascists. Never caught, never prosecuted. Didn't matter what I saw, they were protected by the local sheriff and racist politicians.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

You can tell me that the fascists are dumb rednecks doing things on their own. No, they are financed by the rich as a terrorism squad, to intimidate black people. I always believed that armed self-defense was the way to deal with them. I take my inspiration from the anti-klan militia run by Robert Williams in N.C. during the late 1950's, and the Deacon for Defense and Justice in 1965-67.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

If it wasn't for pessimism, how would we know what is optimism? Fight, fail, fight, fail, fight, fail, and fight on until final victory. Mao. I may not agree on everything, but he was right about that. we cannot surrender to the fascists or the police state.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Been hearing about the New Jim Crow, which is the same as the old Jim Crow, but newly organized and under new management. Ex-convicts are the class of third-class citizens. They can be denied housing, jobs, and other social benefits of citizens, and they say it's all legal. Need to understand all this while we fight the prison system.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

NPO's are one of the things hold back a mass movement of the poor, subverting the movement with government and corporate grants, 501c3 regulatory legal status, and white/elite manipulation of funding to hold back a militant agenda. The INCITE Sistas were the first ones to deal with this, but others have know it for years. We have to crush the legal NPO/NGO model right along with the capitalist corporations.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

The NPO is a model designed to act as an agent to prevent autonomous movements from developing or to crush/co-opt then when they do arise. This does not mean that every individual NPO is evil or selling out, just means that as a class of corporations, they are the methods the rich are using to hold the poor down in this period.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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