Organizer for the People’s Justice Project (PJP)
Aramis Sundiata, Organizer:
“When you see people en masse, in real community, in the political arena believing in themselves and believing, ‘I am going to yell as loud as I can, No justice, no peace,’ or when you see people take the street and believe they can do it, it’s beautiful.”
“There’s no lukewarm in struggle. You’re either part of it, or you’re not part of it. There is no middle ground. There’s no reforming an immoral, irrational system. It’s only rational to fight it.”
“This is one thing about this work and about organizing and about history: there are no weak people in this work. In this process, you come out really understanding like, I’m willing. To sacrifice. My life. For you. Because, my work has already been done, I’m just expanding it.”
“It’s just an understanding. When King says, ‘I may not get there with you,’ you get that. Because, once you get death threats, and once you see that people are willing to take the time to call you up or drop nooses at your office, or cops at your action are not just pushing you, but using guns, or you’re being pepper sprayed while you’re on the front line, you get to a point where you’re like, ‘Don’t you ever think I’m playing with you.’”
“Some people have to die, and I’m not kidding. Organizing is a river of no return. There’s no going back. There’s nothing else you can do.”