Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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

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.