Occupation: Activist Birth: October 22, 1936
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party..
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, enginee….
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change..
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes..
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….
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….
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….
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital..
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….
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be….
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers..
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party - ….
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us..
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why..
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as….
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform….
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for..
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists..
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….
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity..
I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer..