Black Panther Quotes

• Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Patriotic

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

  Huey Newton

  Hands, Revolution, Rebellion

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• 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

  Party, Thinking, Air

  "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.

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

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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

  Kool Moe Dee

  Party, Lunch, Black

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• 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

  Party, People, Black

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

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

  Bobby Seale

  Fighting, Racism, Brotherhood

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• 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

  Party, Home, Simple

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• It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Black, Panthers

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• 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

  War, Party, California

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• 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

  Party, Black, Panthers

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• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

  Bobby Seale

  Revenge, Party, Black

  "A Closer Look at the New Black Panther Party". 6abc.com. November 09, 2010.

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• You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Powerful, Gun

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• 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

  Piano, Rocks, Years

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jan 04, 2014

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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• There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Dad, Party

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• Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans are affirming their identities while dealing with vilification and dehumanization. The image of a black hero on this scale is just really exciting.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Hero, Opportunity, African American

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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

  Bobby Seale

  Black, Panthers, Schemes

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• 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

  Mistake, Party, Taken

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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Bobby Seale

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Bobby Seale, Still Revolutionary". Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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• Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.

  James Patterson

  Stupid, Wings, Understanding

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.15, Random House

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• I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.

  Tommy Douglas

  Daughter, Children, Believe

  Ottawa Journal, October 5, 1969.

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Exercise, Black

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• 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

  Song, Party, Sunshine

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