“Prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups” - from COINTELPRO document
“We know they did pull the trigger on Fred Hampton,” said Flint Taylor "all the bullet holes, were all coming inside from outside.” ( talking about when the police murdered Fred Hampton)
“ Police in our community couldn’t possibly be there to protest our property because we own no property” - Huey P. Newton
The mindset of the People :
“The existentialist philosophers talk about the execution of victim relationship that is always prevalent in the most of the world today, especially the non-white world where they’re fighting for their liberation. He says there are executioners and there are victims, and executioners are self-imposed. The victims begin to fight and agitate for their liberation. They use all type of means to get their liberation. The revolutionary philosopher Frantz Fanon says that what happens is that the victims begin to agitate. He uses all types of means against his executioner in fighting for a position of equality. After he tries a number of means and they do not work, he then begins to imitate the means by which his executioner kept him down, that is usually through force and violence. He says and then they begin to use it against them, breaking the one taboo that they’ve never been able to break. Hitting back against their executioners, so that you ought not to be upset if we are violent, the United States taught us very well how to be violent.” - Kwame Ture
“Black power is the consequence of white backlash, riots are a consequence of the white backlash rather than a cause of it” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“ They want to dismiss us as a street gang” - Bobby Rush (former Black Panther that was arrested for crime he didn't commit)