Occupation: Political Activist Birth: February 17, 1942 Death: August 22, 1989
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism..
You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting ….
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment..
When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever..
We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-l….
Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare ….
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestor….
Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we as….
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, goin….
I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordi….
I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth..
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up..
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know th….
I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother w….
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I h….
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down..
By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life.
The United States is already antique..
The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin Am….
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white….
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people..