Mike Walker:
CLASS OF 1997
Grant High SchoolClass of 1997
Portland, OR
Mike's Story
Mike is from Portland, Oregon. Mike's schools include Grant High School. Mike later attended Portland State University, Portland Community College.
Music Mike likes includes Session Jones, Ymcmb, John John Da Don. Books Mike likes include The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Movies Mike likes include Friday, Precious Knowledge, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. TV shows Mike likes include Portlandia, 503tv Productions, SportsNation.
One of Mike's favorite quotes is:"Men's best successes come after their disappointments.".
More about Mike:"âYou can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.â
âYou can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.â
"I was born in a bourgeois community and had some of the better things in life, but I found that there were more people starving than there were people eating, more people that didnât have clothes than did have clothes, and I just happened to be one of ...Expand for more
the few. So I decided that I wouldnât stop doing what Iâm doing until all those people are free.
"Weâre gonna have to do more than talk. We're gonna have to do more than listen. We're gonna have to do more than learn. Weâre gonna have to start practicing and thatâs very hard. Weâre gonna have to start getting out there with the people and thatâs difficult. Sometimes we think weâre better than the people so itâs gonna take a lot of hard work.
"You donât fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. Weâre gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. Weâre gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If youâre afraid of socialism, youâre afraid of yourself.
"I might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But you can believe that the last words on my lips were âI am a revolutionary.â
All quotes from Fred Hampton...".
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