"The progressive plantation" is just another name for the internal racism which exists in many of these white-led institutions. They are undemocratic, insider-controlled, and a front for white Liberals to control social change movements. This kind of movement cannot change the world, indeed it has to be smashed right along with other elements of the capitalist system.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

We want to change the world, well you cannot adopt the racism, political croneyism, sexism, and domination of the society that we profess to want to change in our movements. There has to be an internal struggle to fight for the soul of the movement itself before it can really challenge the state and capitalist society. If you refuse, then you are part of the enemy class.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

To really understand the nature of the society, its racism, sexism, homophobia, and class exploitation, you have to go to prison. There the stark reality is right on display for all to see. The only question is if you will fight it, or accommodate yourself to it.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

It is a cruel trick to mislead people with rhetoric and posturing, and never once put your life on the line for real, lasting social change. Look in the mirror, are you for real or are you posturing?

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

It is a cruel trick to mislead people with rhetoric and posturing, and never once put your life on the line for real, lasting social change. Look in the mirror, are you for real or are you posturing?

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

If you have never suffered a day in your life; if you really don't care when people die all around you; if you are just "going through a phase" as an activist, and if you really don't like to deal with uncomfortable facts, then you cannot be a revolutionary or real activist. You have no heart or soul to speak of.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Police are posturing to be needed in this period, because their bosses create the conditions of social decay.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

I am not trying to save America, am not patriotic, and not trying to understand the fascists and the "angry white man". I want to piss in the teacup of the Tea Party, and put them and all fascists in the same grave.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Angry white man? What the hell are they angry about anyway? They haven't been enslaved on plantations, had their lands stolen, been subjected to genocide by U.S. Army, suffered mass imprisonment, forced into mass poverty, been raped or shot down in the streets by cops. They are angry because of the stirrings of the poor and oppressed racial groups below.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

The idea of NPO's as a hustle is how we got the poverty pimp, prime-time preacher, and race hustler. Some of these people have million dollar budgets, so we know that political pimping pays good and gets them on the news. But all of that will shortly be swept away in a high tide of revolutionary struggle by the poor and autonomous POC in control of their own movements.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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