Occupation: Activist Birth: October 22, 1936
There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone b….
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!.
Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves..
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why..
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital..
We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap..
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be….
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity..
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the p….
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must ri….
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program th….
All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most se….
The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done..
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it wa….
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational hu….
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitut….
I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer..
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere..
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtic….
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes..