The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
From Bobby Seale
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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, engineer and revolutionary.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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 first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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