african american quotes

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Marxist-Leninism per se was really a latter development: not until 1968 that we really considered the Red Book required reading.

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.

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.

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

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.