Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1954-04-24

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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a political activist and journalist, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1981 death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He became widely known while on death row for his writings and commentary on the criminal justice system in the United States. After numerous appeals, his death penalty sentence was overturned by a Federal court. In 2011, the prosecution agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without par

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,326x

2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,795x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,177x

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 9,734x

5. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

   · 2014 · cited 9,177x

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Quotes

• “The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.”
• “At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.”
• “Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.”
• “The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.”
• “I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death... They haven't stopped me from doing what I want every day. I believe in life, I believe in freedom, so my mind is not consumed with death. It's with love, life and those things. In many ways, on many days, only my body is here, because I am thinking about what's happening around the world.”
• “Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.”

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