You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
From Bobby Seale
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
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 police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
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 beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
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 that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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