“Power anywhere where there’s people!”

We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.

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.

We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from 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.

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

We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.

We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.

Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

The best people want to work the big challenges.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.