- Bobby Lee: A non-capitalistic state, that's what we're talkin' about. We're talkin' about Revolution. People get hung up about Panthers are self-defense. You know, that's half-war. We're talkin' about war. Guerrilla war. Urban guerrilla war.
- Bobby Lee: Bobby Hutton gave is life, man. The cat was 18 years old. He gave his life. From that day on, Panthers moved up.
- Bobby Lee: Once you realize, that you are payin' *taxes*, *taxes* for the cops to whoop your ass - you're payin' 'em! - you're payin' 'em, man, to whip your ass - you're payin' 'em, man, to beat your children, you're payin' 'em to run you off the corner, and you're payin' 'em to kill you! The same thing is happenin' on the South Side and the West Side. And you can realize the concept of poverty - the concept of poverty - a Revolution can begin.
- Self - Organizer: We're going to show them how to have a real Council meeting here. The first hour is with the pigs. The next hour, is with the people! And the streets belong to the people, not the pigs. Remember that.
- Protestor: I'm gonna say, "Muthafucka I'm gonna fight for that shit." And please do, muthafucka, if they ain't gonna give it to me, if they ain't gonna give it to me we gonna fight the muthafucka. I'm gonna walk down the muthafuckin' street and if a fuckin' cop looks at me, I just go bam muthafucka! You bet. If I got 15,000 guys behind me, muthafucka, it's gonna be a different scene. I can think the best things you want when you die is to say, "I'm a hard muthafucka."
- Self - Organizer: "Black Power" is doin' its own thing and another is "Irish Power", whatever you want to call it, you know. We're all people and all poor folks.
- Black Pool Hall Worker: The average dude you see in the police, he must be in some kind of sickness anyway; because, if he's white he can go out there and get a $15,000 a year job if he had something on the ball.
- Protestor: If we're gonna go to jail, let's go to jail!
- Protestor: Black people have been demonstratin' and goin' on for I don't know how long. And, well, we've been gettin' our heads beatin' and whatnot. We knew what was goin' to happen when those folks went down there; because, we have seen the Pigs on the scene. We know what he's like. We know what he's capable of. Just bein' a damn Pig. Oinkin' and beatin' and walkin' the streets. I'm sick of these damn Pigs walkin' on our streets. And, so, everybody gets uptight when a few honkies get they're heads beat. What did they do when we was gettin' our heads beat? So, I don't even want to deal with why they got they're heads beat - whatever else that's goin' on. I just want to deal with Black and Black Liberation. My scene is pickin' up my damn gun and I'm a mother. Have my baby in one hand, my gun in the other, and walkin' up to some honky, all honkies, sayin', "I'm here muthafucker to get what's mine."
- Protestor: See, you don't know what we have. You think you know what we have. You don't know what we have.
- Protestor: The police, they got to whoop somebody. They was fired up. They just got to whoop somebody. They don't care who they whoop.
- Protestor: This court is like this here: if you're white, you're right; if you're black, stay back.
- Protestor: Any courtroom you go into, any judge, colored, white, pink, purple, any color you can think of, the less respect you get out of them. If you poor, you get nuthin'.
- Protestor: I don't believe in that law. That law ain't nuthin'. That law ain't nuthin'. That law is for people with money. If you haven't got no money, you don't have no law.
- Protestor: You know, a cat say, "Hey, yeah, right, I dig it." You know. And he said like, "Alright, is it black cats who were like, you know, who were stopping' you and makin' you pay them off on your way home from workin' in that crummy factory before you go to that bar where you cut each other up." No, man. It's like the man makin' you tight. The man is turnin' you in on your wife. The man is turnin' you in on your buddy on the line.
- Protestor: What we have to do now is pull ourselves together into a functioning group of people who can go out and rebel against them.
- Protestor: I think those muthafuckers got all kinds of balls.
- Protestor: They got no say in what the fuck's going on any more than we got any say, see. I'm sayin' the cats are makin' bed in their fuckin' war, see. Okay, we go - we send our fuckin' troops to 'Nam because the cats are makin' the fuckin' arms in the government, man. The cats are sellin' the bull shit whatever they're sellin', you know. Textiles, man. The cats that are buildin' army bases are makin' bread and they're tied with the cats in the government. They're sayin' to the government, "Man, listen, man, we're tied to the investment, we gotta keep the fuckin' South Vietnamese regime goin'." See? So that means, that means, it means they send over American cats to die over there so they can make their fuckin' money.
- Protestor: Nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to kill each other.
- Protestor: You better be together because the pigs are in here right now and they knows what we gonna do. Dig? When you do it, do it right or don't do it at all.
- Protestor: When you talk about tolerance. We're not tolerating this. We're angry. A hundred years ago this flag which I wear on my cap represents the Confederate States of America. *We* were beat down and we beat down people for a hundred years and we know what its like to beat down people. We beat down people hard. We're all gettin' ourselves together. We're angry about it.
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- Protestor: Yes I'm gonna die sometime and that's why I say it ain't no sense in workin' all my fuckin' life for bull shit. Because, I know I'm gonna die. Ain't no sense in puttin' up with the horse shit they put out here all the time. Because, I know I'm gonna die. That's worth a thought man. Ain't no sense in waitin'. So, I'm gonna be 95 years old, drivin' my XK-E. Fuck them, man. I want it now! 'Cause it's mine.
- Protestor: We gotta plan it so we win, not so we die, man.
- Self - Organizer: I know your reasons of why that you've been hollerin' and the things that you've been sayin'. And I talked to Sgt. Cramer the other day and I talked to Commander Connelly. They both told me they wasn't aware of what's happenin' on Wilson Avenue. And so here tonight we're here to make them aware of it. We want to have a good community, a good neighborhood; furthermore, we intend to have a good neighborhood and a good community.
- Bobby Lee: If anyone here is harassed by any police officer, know we will, be sure to take his badge number down, his car number, and we will see this man. You know, we will see this man. And then, I'd like to know if we come to you with a badge number, a car number, and you find this officer to have really harassed one of the people here, what would happen to him?
- Commander Connolly: Now, let's wait and see.
- Protestor: Ain't no satisfaction in dyin' man! Man, ain't no satisfaction in dyin'. Ain't no satisfaction in dyin' a hero, man. You're fuckin' dead! And that's it!
- Protestor: I was in a homosexual's house, watching his TV set, waiting for his cousin to come back. His cousin is 17 years old, happens to be a friend of mine. He's a homosexual. They come in and they try to make me say that I am a faggot, you know.
- Protestor: We're not out to get clobbered. We're out to exercise our Constitutional right to protest.
- Protestor: If they're against you, then, fuck 'em!
- Protestor: We have nothing against you joining our demonstration. We have nothing against you demonstrating.
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- Protestor: Possibly we can make our voice heard at the Conrad Hilton. They'll be nominating Hubert Humphrey. Anything we can do to discourage them will be sure wholeheartedly appreciated.
- Democratic National Convention Protestors: Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace!
- Democratic National Convention Protestors: Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Bobby Lee: I don't have to tell my story. These brothers have already did it. We're all niggers, it seems like.
- Bobby Lee: A week ago today, six young men along with myself were walking down Broadway Street, we just left a meeting at Junebug's house. We were detained for two hours, I would say. Six, seven fellas walkin' down the street. So, I'd like you to maybe define like is six guys on the street considered a gang - at this time of night?
- Commander Connolly: First of all, I will concede that police officers generally are a little prejudicial in regard to any citizen who perhaps doesn't dress or look like the way the should - they think people should look. Now, I certainly appreciate your plight being a negro. But, it would be silly for me to stand here tonight and make excuses for my men or try to make you feel a little better by saying my men where wrong. It would be wrong both ways. We have to know some of the background. There may have been a robbery there an hour before - fifteen minutes before. There may have been a crime wave before. There may have been burglaries...