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and oppressed people of all nationalities ... This unity could be built only on the basis of the struggle for complete equality, by removing all grounds for sus- picion and distrust and building mutual confidence and voluntary inter-relations between the white masses of the oppressor nation and the Black masses of the oppressed nation. ... What was clear to me was that our thesis of self-determination had correctly elevated the fight for Black rights to a revolutionary position, whereas the proponents of Sik's theories attempted to downgrade the movement, seeing it as a minor aspect of the class struggle. (Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik) The struggle of the black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers' movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class. (Mao Zedong, 1968) When Africa becomes economically free and politically united, the monopolists will come face to face with their own working class in their own countries, and a new struggle will arise within which the liquidation and collapse of imperialism will be completed. (Kwame Nkrumah) It was then the policy of the Communist Party of Great Britain not to attack the Labour Party. Consistent with this policy, the Connolly Association was in effect urging Irish workers in England to subsidise a party that perpetuated partition. That taught me that organisations which tried to mix two allegiances were useless and dangerous. (Sean MacStiofain, Revolutionary in Ireland) MAN IS A BEING WITH CHAJUSONG The leader gave a new philosophical conception of man by defining Chajusong, creativity and consciousness as the essential features of man, the social being. ... Man is a being with Chajusong, that is, an independent social being. (OJI 10) It is my deep conviction that all peoples wish to be free, and that the desire for freedom is rooted in the soul of every one of us. (Kwame Nkrumah) And what the West has in truth not understood is that today a new humanism, a new theory of man is coming into being, which has its root in man. ... The fact is that the Egyptian fellahs and the Indonesian boys, whom Western writers like to feature in their exotic novels, insist on taking their own destiny into their hands and refuse to play the role of an inert panorama that had been reserved for them. (Frantz Fanon, Towards the African Revolution) To us individuals death means the end of our normal existence, but to all revolutionaries it is their constant companion. Therefore, death does not frighten us revolutionaries. In their everyday struggle for victory in a just cause their mission itself is attended by vicissitudes which entail almost permanently danger to their lives. (Marien Ngouabi) A revolutionary fails only if he surrenders. (Kwame Nkrumah) The ideas which can and will sustain our movement for total freedom and dignity of the people cannot be imprisoned, for they are to be found in the people, all the people, wherever they are. As long as the people live by the ideas of freedom and dignity there will be no prison which can hold our movement down. ... The prison cannot gain a victory over the political prisoner because he has nothing to be rehabilitated from or to. He refuses to accept the legitimacy of the system and refuses to participate.... The idea which motivated and sustained the political prisoner rests in the people, all the prison has is a body. (Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning) 4

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