The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
They call us thieves and bandits. They say we steal. But it was not we who stole millions of Black people from the continent of Africa. We were robbed of our language, of our Gods, of our culture, of our human dignity, of our labor, and of our lives. They call us thieves, yet it is not we who rip off billions of dollars every year through tax evasions, illegal price fixing, embezzlement, consumer fraud, bribes, kickbacks, and swindles. They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs. They call us thieves, but we did not rob and murder millions of Indians by ripping off their homeland, then call ourselves pioneers. They call us bandits, but it is not we who are robbing Africa, Asia, and Latin America of their natural resources and freedom while the people who live there are sick and starving. The rulers of this country and their flunkies have committed some of the most brutal, vicious crimes in history. They are the bandits. They are the murderers. And they should be treated as such.
Here have been marraiges and merry makings; jovial feasts and ceremonial banquets; midnight conclaves that made or unmade political parties; grave councils of state that shaped the destiny of the nation, and war councils that flashed forth orders moving great armies and establishing lines of battle.