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

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.

You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.

We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.

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 can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.

If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.

Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.