“I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.”

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

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.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

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

I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.

There’s nothing wrong with being a cop. There’s nothing wrong with being a white person. It’s about where your heart is…We’ve got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

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.

We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

I’d have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I’d just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it’s entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.