I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.