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A People Who Have Suffered So Much For So Long At Hands Of A Racist Society Must Draw The Line Somewhere.... The Black Communities Of America Must Rise Up As One Man To Halt The Progression Of A Trend That Leads Inevitably To Their Total Destruction.

The First Point Was We Wanted Power To Determine Our Own Destiny In Our Own Black Community. And What We Had Done Is, We Wanted To Write A Program That Was Straightforward To The People. We Didn't Want To Give A Long Dissertation.

The Black Panther Party Were Not Revenge Nationalists.

There Is An Entire Generation Of Young People Who Know Nothing About How Viciously The Fbi Attacked The Black Panther Party, And Why.

Our Position Was: If You Don't Attack Us, There Won't Be Any Violence; If You Bring Violence To Us, We Will Defend Ourselves.