Kerry Washington Quotes

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

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.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

Black Power is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.