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I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.
We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.
I don't know if I like communism, and I don't know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program ...
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.
If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can't jail the revolution.
You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can't run liberation out of the country.
You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can't murder freedom fighting.
And if you do, you'll come up with answers that don't answer,
explanations that don't explain,
you'll come up with conclusions that don't conclude
And you'll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that's acting like people and instead moving on pigs.
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.