Gregory Koger

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February 2008

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"...Thrown in a lineup,
Labeled as a gangbanger though he never signed up
Cops is trying to get the crime up
Get that on your record,
Employers gonna check it - fire you
So now you gotta resort to the only method
That seem to guarantee
Any sense of clarity
Asked him when the rent'll be paid
The street salary
You're sure to meet tragedy:
Die or go to jail
But somehow
It all still seem worth it
and thats real..."
Young Man - Talib Kweli

"I see no changes
Wake up in the morning and I ask myself:
Is life worth living
Should I blast myself?"
Changes - Tupac Shakur

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
- Albert Camus

"I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment [The power structure, based on the economic infrastructure, propped up and reinforced by the media and all the secondary educational and cultural institutions.], which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them.
Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions. This possibility is important, because much in human existence is based upon hope without any real understanding of the odds. Indeed, we are all — Black and white alike — ill in the same way, mortally ill. But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death."
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton

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