Quotes About Black Panther Party

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Bobby Seale

#6. 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

#7. The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

Bobby Seale

#8. I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

Bobby Seale

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

Bobby Seale

#10. If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Bobby Seale

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

Kool Moe Dee

#12. The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.

Bobby Seale

#13. By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Alexander Cockburn

#14. The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Bobby Seale

#15. I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

Lena Dunham

#16. Determined to enshroud his enchantment.

Jazz Feylynn

#17. The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin Mays

#18. We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.

Deborah King

#19. When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else ... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

Rajneesh

#20. Nothing can justify injustice.

Ayn Rand

#21. He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.

Stephen Mitchell

#22. Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What's more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. 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

#24. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

#25. I wasn't part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed.

Anne Rice

#26. I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Alan Zweibel

#27. Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Hulk Hogan

#28. I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

Ndamukong Suh

#29. In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Widad Akreyi

#30. Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

Augusten Burroughs