Occupation: Political Activist Birth: February 17, 1942 Death: August 22, 1989
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people..
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….
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….
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 ….
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment..
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….
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up..
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….
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism..
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….
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 ….
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….
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 think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one ….
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one i….
There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very….
We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's ….
When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep….
Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way..
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution..
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism..