Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them..

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves..

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man..

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along..

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chain….

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that..

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together….

A woman’s place is in the struggle..

The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. Fo….

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Bl….

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive..

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you….

That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often ….

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously..

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role..

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read ….

I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a d….

Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels li….

The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow thi….

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America..

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never b….