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.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

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.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

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.

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.