Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. |
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. |
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. |
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. |
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. |
I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. |
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. |
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. |
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. |
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. |
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. |
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. |
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. |
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. |
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. |