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Black Panther Party — Part 22

84 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Feb 21, 1965 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Black Panther Party · 84 pages OCR'd
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3 S$ a 4 ¢ oe 3 4 *. net ~e eee" afi PS ids oman Bete, _ Disiory and our role in the Pt esenlday sutiety. igs §, We want edtice: .@ for cur peaple iat exposes the true nacre of thig deesfzent Americzn sottety. We want education that teaches ws BOY trie We believe in an educational system t wal wii? give tv out people a know edge of self. If a man does not nave kicalaize of himself aid bis fresifies in society and the world, then ine has 4 wth, oo Pate to anything a . &. We want all black 1 men ‘to ‘Ge exempl frotu 1: rites su rile. ~ We believe that Black people staat! net he &- we r 10 Seebt Mts the cratic tary service to defend a racist goveriimen! the: : dur> Hot protect us WE will not fight and kill ather people ef culer in Une world who, fike brack people, are being victimized by the wh. me ft goveriuncent of America. We will protect ourselves from thy fore. ier? Gietonce af the racist relive and the racist military, by whatever mieans betes ary. : 7. We want en immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY ‘and ML RDER — of black people. ; We believe we can end police brttais Voit bur Yt tach community bs on fanizing black self-icfense crouns that are icsical tay defending our ense group icaicdl to defending black community from racist t police oppression vod brutality. The Second .. . re Amendment to the Constilution of the Uatted Stites gives a right fe bear - Loe oe arms, We therefore believe that al! Mack people should arm themsetves , fer self-defense. -_ And as ovr major pelitica objective, a United Nations-supervised plebls- cite to be held thronghowt the black col ia which only black colonial WAhinnte afl hin etna t fo matt rE oP Fb Od we ah 4% wilfor tt Wk GO BOW WE Bal itis ipale, fur the Purpose OL GCLETMuNINg ec ' will of bitck people as to their national destiny. & _ 8 We want freedom for all black men held le derai, tate ats at aud elty prisons end jails. ; oe i We bdlicve that all black peupie should be released from the many jails and prisons becaus? Uhey have nol received a feir and impartial trial. 4 ° ~} B. We want al] black people when Lroughit tu (riaf te be tried (np court by , ho _ a £ : Jury of their peer group or people frou their block eanimurities, #8 0. ©. ee eet eee Ee efincd by the Constliction of the Vuited States, ° . : “- .” We believe that the courts should folles the Urctad States Constitution ae so that black people will receive fair beials. The 14c:h Amendment of the ad US, Censtitction gives a mana right to be tosd by bis peer greup. A peer A is a pezson from a similar etsnuric, social, pehpiuis, geoprephical, en- i wironimentel, historical and racial backpround. To do this the court will be “ee forced to select a jury frown the ble Fo vominuany from which the black : x: ‘deiundant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries . og that have no understanding of the “average reasoning of the black re i th community. im : 10, We want Land, bread, housirg, education, clothing. justice and peace. ¢ ; St a H - 4 rs When, in the course of human events it he comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political band: whici hace connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws cf nature and uature’s God entilfe them, a : decent respect to the opinions of monkund requires that they should declare . 4 the causes which impel ihem to the separaiton. . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ali mei are created equal; - t. that they are endowed by their Creator wits certair cnalicaable rights: aa that among these are life, liberty, and Ure pursuit of happiness. That, to *. secure these rights, governments are instituied 2mong men, deriving their A just powers from tke consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of ap government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people * BS te alier or Co ebolizh tt, and fo institute a new government, laying its . 4 f fonudsticn on such principles, and organizing its powers ia such form, as to them shall espe. troct Ekely fo ified heh: safety and happlness. Fru. tk dence, indeed, will dictate that governments Jong established should not f be changed for light anc (rausieni causes: and «ccurdingly, al] experience | hath shown, thal mankind ate more dispescd tn suffer, while evils are 4 sufferable, than to right themselves if abahshing the forms to which they ‘Z are accustomed. But, when a long train of a uses aud uustr ations, pur- vf suing invariably the same object, evieces # ‘3 solute despotism. Wt is thelr right. it I Ghcie dane fo Uirow off such povcra- i “ament, and to provide new guards for ir Mature s-cerity. id “ the tae cs a Fe ane wits ys . *
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