“We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.”

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’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

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!

Don’t jump at every chance to go and let loose; think about what will be better for your progress. ⁣

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Human things have long since jumped the shark.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.