Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

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.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

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.

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

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

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.