“It is better to die on your feet

than to live on your knees.”

--Emiliano Zapata

A brother asked me whether a state

sanctioned “Murder sentence” is

better than reactionary suicide???

And I answered by saying that it is,

For some of us,

Because regardless of guilt or

innocence, some of us

are challenging these murder

sentences, refusing to lay

down to it and sleep with it,

having courage enough to fight

for FREEDOM day and night

to reunite

ourselves with everyone and

everything we know

and LOVE!

Yes, I believe it’s better for

some of us, for those of us refusing to forfeit

being the men

we were born to be, the men our

families so desperately

need us to be—protectors,

providers and riders

in the sense of being active

men to our community, fathers

to our children,

husbands to their mothers and

not just knocked off baby fathers.

And though we all won’t make it,

some of us still

find it a must, fighting to

change the gruesome

face of our present reality to the death versus

complacently waiting to die a number!

There are no appeals, pardons,

prayers or fighting back

from being dead, for death is the

promise never broken.

So long as there remains a

breath left to breathe

inside the soul of a DRIVE RESISTER,

you can bet

your live that there’s a fight being

fought to live,

to be free, and to not just sub-sist.

Anything less would make

us nothing but breathing dead men

feeding on a steady diet of oppression and

self-destruction—

a life left for

voluntary neo-slaves in a new-wave

era that bends over accepting to be

penol-ogically sodomized

and laying down to accept their

judicial biocide.

We REFUSE!

“Better to die on you feet

than to live on your knees.”