Activist

We are not terrorists. We're not criminals, we're not motivated by money, we're not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice kids gone wrong. We're deeply committed to a different kind of society and a different world. I think that is something very hard to understand for a lot of people.

Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.

These chains are not going to stop me.

I've done everything I know in my heart on every level to take responsibility for what I think I have to. I'm not going to take responsibility for something the government thinks that I should because they think I should.

We're caught, but we're not defeated. Long live the armed struggle!

The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and, consequently, their right to justice is denied.

We are innocent. We are not criminals or terrorists. We are revolutionary guerillas and have been captured in the course of building a resistance to this government.

We are revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance fighters.

The high security is living death.

At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

I believed that one had to stop the machinery of war.

It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.

I had a second chance. I know how incredible that is.

I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.

I ran... I didn't trust the government. I was really afraid. I believe now that that was the fatal mistake of my life.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

I have been a revolutionary for much of my life.

I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.