Edwin Meese Quotes

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

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

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Gangsta to me is the Black Panther Party.

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.

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.

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

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

We have been saying "Freedom" for six years. What we are going to start saying now is "Black Power". We have begged the President. We've begged the federal government. That's all we've been doing, begging and begging. From now on, when they ask you what you want, you know what to tell them.

With these raids the backbone of the radical movement in America is broken.

Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Disruption of the New Left

The Ballot or the Bullet

Nothing could be less intelligent than to assume, as many respectable persons still manage to do, that the forms of agitation which are popularly summed up in the terms socialism, anarchism, feminism, and pacifism are mere eccentricities of unbalanced minds, seeking to cloak their hatred of restraint and their cowardice under theories of social regeneration.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.