i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasn’t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.