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  • I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes. -- Bobby Seale
  • Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no. -- Michael Wilbon
  • Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people. -- Bobby Seale
  • My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther. -- Tupac Shakur
  • A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. -- Fred Hampton
  • In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. -- Alexander Cockburn
  • If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group. -- Anthony Mackie
  • People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
  • Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. -- Camille Paglia
  • I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans -- Tommy Douglas
  • My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. -- Yaya DaCosta
  • In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left. -- Marisha Pessl
  • You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
  • Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were. -- Nat Hentoff
  • In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that. -- Kekla Magoon
  • If called by a panther, don't anther. -- Ogden Nash
  • The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists. -- Bobby Seale
  • The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party. -- Bobby Seale
  • Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf. -- Cassandra Clare
  • We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why. -- Bobby Seale
  • I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals. -- Tupac Shakur
  • I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock. -- Jack Black
  • You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver) -- Gordon Parks
  • Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. -- Fred Hampton
  • There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. -- Aristophanes
  • I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse. -- Finn Andrews
  • The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head. -- Ovid
  • I'm a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They're like 17 pounds each-they're big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny. -- Dave Franco
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