"The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists." — Bobby Seale

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.

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.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

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.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.