You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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.
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.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
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.
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.
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 was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
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.
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
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.
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
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.
