The Black Panther Party Were Not Revenge

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

The People Have Now Come To Realize That The Only Way To Deal With The Oppressor Is To Deal On Our Own Terms And This Was Done.

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.

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.

We Were Not Talking About The Average White Person: We Was Talking About The Corporate Money Rich And The Racist Jive Politicians And The Lackeys, As We Used To Call Them, For The Government Who Perpetuate All This Exploitation And Racism.