Black Panther Party Quotes:

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

- Huey Newton

topic: Hands, Revolution, Rebellion, Black Panther, Black Panther Party

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.

- Fred Hampton

source: "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.

topic: Fighting, Fire, Racism, Anti Racism, Black Panther Party

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

- Kerry Washington

topic: Party, Thinking, Air, Black Panther, Black Panther Party

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

- Bobby Seale

source: " Bobby Seale Still Fundraising For Scripted Black Panthers Life Story Feature Film" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2013.

topic: Party, People, Black, Panthers, Black Panther

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

- Bobby Seale

topic: Revenge, Party, Black, Panthers, Black Panther

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

- Kool Moe Dee

topic: Party, Lunch, Black, Panthers, Free Lunch

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

- Bobby Seale

topic: Party, Self, Black, Panthers, Black Panther

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.

- Bobby Seale

topic: Party, Black, Panthers, Electoral Process, Black Panther

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

- Huey Newton

source: Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Fate, Men, Political, Black Panther Party

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.

- Fred Hampton

topic: Party, Home, Simple, Panthers, Black Panther

What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.

- Sekou Odinga

topic: New York, Party, People, Given A Chance, Black Panther

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

- Fred Hampton

topic: Mother, Country, Party, Panthers, Mother Country

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.

- Bobby Seale

topic: War, Party, California, Berkeley, Anti Vietnam War

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

- Jack Black

topic: Rocks, Years, Piano, Pink Panther, Black Panther

Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

- Manning Marable

topic: Party, Black, Nypd, Undercover, Black Panther

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.

- Mumia Abu-Jamal

topic: Party, School, Writing, Panthers, Black Panther

That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasn’t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Mistake, Party, Taken, Self Criticism, Constructive Criticism

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Song, Party, Sunshine, Black Panther, Black Panther Party