There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

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.

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.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.