I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

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.

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

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.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

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.