Electoral Politics Was Always An Objective Of

A People Who Have Suffered So Much For So Long At Hands Of A Racist Society Must Draw The Line Somewhere.... The Black Communities Of America Must Rise Up As One Man To Halt The Progression Of A Trend That Leads Inevitably To Their Total Destruction.

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.

The Black Panther Party Of Self-defense Is A Revolutionary Party.

I Am Not A Hoodlum. I'm A Community Organizer.

I Still Want My Right To Defend Myself. A Railroad Operation, And You Know It, From Nixon On Down. They Got You Running Around Violating My Constitutional Rights.