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The War Before

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  • Author: [[Safiya Bukhari, Laura Whitehorn, Angela Y. Davis, and Mumia Abu-Jamal]]
  • ASIN: B0038OM0PI
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038OM0PI
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Highlights

The first was the internal jihad, wherein you struggle to change those things within that are incorrect. The second jihad is with your immediate family; the third is with the community. — location: 1613 ^ref-55682

The most important lesson that stayed with me from these teachings is that our children are not our property. Our children are little people who have been placed in our care, for us to nurture and guide. It is a most important charge, since they will one day be the ones who shape the direction of the world. — location: 1972 ^ref-39000

You cannot truly talk about being motivated by great feelings of love, or even about being a revolutionary, if you do not understand that it is indeed how we deal with the question of our youth that will determine the outcome of the revolution. — location: 1975 ^ref-13110

Some of us mistake the people’s anger, frustration, and distrust of the system as meaning they are ready for revolution. — location: 2040 ^ref-7997