To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.