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Black Panther Party — Part 09
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In Defcn
sf Sclf Dcfcnse (Junc 20, l957)
Without this oil the nachincry cannot function. We are the driving
chaft; we arc in svch a stxategic position in this machinury that, once
once we bccome dinlosatcd, the functioning of the remainder of the ma-
chinery brcal:s down..
Penned up in the ghettcs of America, surrounded by his factories
ma a'l the physical conponents of his cconomic system, wo have been
made i.t..
"+he wrctched of ths earth, " who are relegatcd to the p5-
sition of sp-.i.ts,. :sie the white xacists run their insernaticnal
con ganc on the sufferiny i'.
.>cn brainwasned to be-
licve that wo arc powerl.esn and thnt there is nothing ws can do fo.
ourselvcs to bring sbeut : speedy liberation for our pcoplc. We
have becn taught that wo must plcasie our opproosors, that we are only
ten per cent of the population, and thereforn, we: must confine onr
tactics to categorics calculated not to disterb the slcep of our tor-
mentors.
The powcr structure inflicts pain and brutolity upan the peoplen
and then provides controlled outlats Sor the pnin in ways le:ast likely
to upsct thcm or interforc with the prceess of crploitaiion. The
peoplc mnst repudiate the channels cuiablishd as tricks cnd deccit--
ful snnren by the cuploiting cpptcrsorn. Ths ptopie must oppone evory
thing thc orgrcoror suprorts aal surrort.evesything thas ho oppoues.
If Dlaek people go abou't their stxusgle for libureticn in the way
that the oprcacor dictstss and sponsors, then we will have degen-
erated to thc lcvel of grovelling flumkies for: ths opp:cnsor h msolf.
becauso of the way thit suen Frceton fightn. chooue to es abont thcir
Hiberttioa, thun i.. inuw wn. c.e moviny iu sh. dixeotina of oux Linura-
tion. The racist. dog oyprunnors hive no rignt. which ouruonnad Eiaek
people are hound io xospret. hs lony as tl: t.ciot dogs pollute the
earth with the cvil of the's: actions, they do not deserve any rospret
at all, ant the rules os thcir gruno, txittcn in tho pcopla's biood.
are bencrih contcpt..
The oppresser must bs harosed until his Cotus. He inst heve no
poace by day or night. The rlaves have alwyn cnsnuabered the rleve-
nanters. The power of the opproscor rurts ujos the submissicn cf the
Igor ttn uy da ougt pur oaton Anlcox oydoed yoatn woyy .ordond
Splondid nillions, they will hava the strensth to sach injustice.
He do not vaderstand the power in our nvabei. wic are msllions and
millions of nleck pucple seuttored nrcss tne continct aad thsough-
out the Wesiern hemisphore.
There arc more llark pcople in imcrica
thut the total popolation cf meny countrics thri. new enjoy full non-
baxsip in the Unieed Hatisns. ruey have powa. and thcix power i.s
based prinarily on the Suet that thsy are orgmnized and mited with
cash other. They are reeegnieed by the powrrs of the world.
We, with all our nunbcrs, are rocrgniaed hy no onc. In fact, e
do ot rccoynsne our ow soloes. He are un:iarc of the poicntial
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