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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.