I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

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.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

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