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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.