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 first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

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.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

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

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.