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praise for mumia Abu-Jamal

Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory, and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal … His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently.

—Cornel West

When you listen to Mumia Abu-Jamal you hear the echoes of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and the sisters and brothers who kept the faith with struggle, who kept the faith with resistance.

—Manning Marable

Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most important public intellectuals of our time … He offers us new ways of thinking about law, democracy and power. He allows us to reflect up on the fact that transformational possibilities often emerge where we least expect them.

—Angela Y. Davis

A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s voice must be heard

—Alice Walker

A brilliant, lucid meditation on the moral obligation of political commitment by a deeply ethical—and deeply wronged—human being. Mumia should be freed, now.

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to kill him and shut him up? Read him.

—John Edgar Wideman

The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia’s radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the government was so intent on putting him to death.

—Assata Shakur

Refusing to be silenced by his incarceration … the flame of his keen intellect and irrepressible soul burns brightly, illuminating each mind that opens to his wise words.

—ALA Booklist

Abu-Jamal’s words flow like the very sap of trees, pulsing with energy and capturing the essence of life.

—Library Journal

His writings are dangerous

—The Village Voice

Crucial reading for all opponents of the death penalty—and for those who support it, too.

—Katha Pollitt, The Nation

Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

—The Boston Globe