I Would Like To Add I'm Innocent.

We Were Trying To Increase The Conflict That Was Already Happening... We Felt That We Would Take The Conflict To So High A Level That Some Change Had To Come.

The Nature Of A Panther Is That He Never Attacks. But If Anyone Attacks Or Backs Into A Corner, The Panther Comes Up To Wipe That Aggressor Or That Attacker Out.

We Have To Realize Our Black Heritage In Order To Give Us Strength To Move On And Progress. But As Far As Returning To The Old African Culture, It's Unnecessary And It's Not Advantageous In Many Respects. We Believe That Culture Itself Will Not Liberate Us. We're Going To Need Some Stronger Stuff.

During Those Long Years In Oakland Public Schools, I Did Not Have One Teacher Who Taught Me Anything Relevant To My Own Life Or Experience. Not One Instructor Ever Awoke In Me A Desire To Learn More Or To Question Or To Explore The Worlds Of Literature, Science, And History. All They Did Was Try To Rob Me Of The Sense Of My Own Uniqueness And Worth, And In The Process Nearly Killed My Urge To Inquire.

I Think The Time Is Right For Organizing And To Give Blacks More Political - The Progressive Blacks, You Have To Make A Distinction - Participation, More Blacks In More Authoritative Positions, In More Electoral Political Positions. But We Want The Right Ones.