Just when one is pessimist about revolutionary prospects, and it seems so unlikely, a social explosion takes place that cannot be stopped by nothing on this earth: neither armies, the secret police, paid liars, or political pimps. When the Army of the Poor really rises up in class warfare, nothing can stand before it.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

We are forever told: "stay in your place, and do what the rich white folks tell you, and you won't be hurt." We are being hurt every day with unemployment, poverty, prison, police brutality, poisonous drugs, racist judges and politicians, corrupt businessmen, and so many other things. The question is when will we fight back, and hurl this capitalist system itself into the grave?

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

A corporation is a criminal cabal. This is just another form of organized crime. Every day, they rob, kill, poison, and beat us down. Don't say you don't know what is going on. Get organized and stop it!

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

This oil slick in the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf coast is a corporate attack, a crime of massive proportions. We cannot depend on the damn government or corporate heads themselves to stop it. People must begin to march on the offices of BP, Exxon, and the others to stop corporate destruction of the environment. End environmental terrorism by mass action!

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Obama ain't trying to save no new nation, he's trying to get us back on the plantation: corporate power, government repression of workers and the poor, mass imprisonment of POC, prosecution of unjust wars, white nationalism, the rise of central authority, and impoverishment and homelessness of millions. is that change that we can believe in, or is that more to the same?

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

It's time to tell the truth, don't use pretty words, and say it in a manner that will break bones and cripple hearts of the rich, while we swell hearts and open minds of the poor, oppressed and exploited.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

It is so sad that we might have to swim through rivers of blood, see the bodies of millions, and suffer excruciating pain of torture before we can experience the sweet smell of freedom. Civil war is coming to America and the world. It will sweep what we know of away, and create a new world we do not even think possible at this time.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Personally, I have seen so much political repression, so much economic depression, and so much more racial oppression, that it seems hard sometimes to see possibilities of revolutionary change on the horizon.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

There is always somebody who has never suffered, lives a life of luxury, and is part of the master class, who lectures the poor or seeks to trick them into putting them into control of the agenda. We cannot follow condescending saviors of any sort: no white man can save us poc, no man is going to save women from sexism, nor rich corporate politicians capable of saving workers. We need to fight our own battles.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

We will not get free just by wishing it so. We must think beyond today's circumstances, and believe and make possible a new world. Cast aside illusions and prepare for a struggle.

— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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