America has never truly been outraged by the murder of a black man, woman, or child. White politicians may, if Negroes are aroused by a particular murder, say with their lips what they know with their minds they should feel with their hearts-but don't

Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

When white freedom riders were brutalized along with blacks, a sigh of relief went up from the black masses, because the blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

Negroes have become so used to this double stan-dard that they, too, react differently to the death of a white.

We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people.

- Huey P. Newton

We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with.

I say ”whatever your insecurities are” because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet.

Initially run out of a St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, the Program became so popular that by the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the nation, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school #BlackHistoryMonth

He supported the Campaign to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners and was a staunch ally of ours in the anti-apartheid movement calling for the freedom of Nelson Mandela. #BlackHistoryMonth