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Black Panther Party — Part 13
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7. We went an framedtcte end lo POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER
of dinck peopte. *
We beiicve we can end potice brutelity in our Mack community by or-
ganizing bleck | self-defense Broups that are dedice: ted te defending: our
ity. The Second
Amendment to the C inited States vives a right to bear
arms, We therefore believe ‘that alt black people should arm theinselves
for self-defense.
78. We wernt ced for eli black men held ln federsl, statz, county
aud city jf
We believe that, ali titack people should be released fram tke many
jails and prisons hecause tiey have not received a fair and impartial trial.
9, We went alt black conse when brought to (risl to be {ried In court by
& Jury of (heir peer sr ay poopie from their Liack communiiles, as
detined by (he Constliution of the Unlied States.
We believe that Uhe courts should follow the United States Constitution
so that black people wil} receive fair tricks. The 14th Amendment of the
US. Constitution gives a man a right Lo be tried by his Peet group. A peer
vironmenial, historical and récial ‘ound. To do this the court will be
forced to select a jury from the b! community from which the black
defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries
hat have no understanding of the “average reasoning man" " of the black
“community.
10. We want land, bread, ‘housing, education, clothing, justice abd peace.
Aud as our major poiiticr! cbjective. a United Nations-supervised plebis-
elte lo be held throngiout-the black colony In whieh only vlack cofonial
subjects will be allowed to verticiaate, ice the purpace of determ ining the
will of black people as lo thely national Gestiny. .
When, in the course cf human events. tf becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected theny with
another. and to assume, 2mong the powers of the earth, the seperate and
equa} station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires (hat they should declare
the causes which impel (hem to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal:
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights:
7 these are
secure these rights, go are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of (he coverned: that, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people
to aller or to balls: it. and Ww astituie a new poveenment. laying its
found ex f Fe
to (hem shall scem most likely to vitect their safety and bappiness. Pru-
dence. indeed. will dictate thal governments long esiablished should not
be changed for light and transient cau: nd. accordingly. all experience
hath shown, that mankind are ny sposed te suffer, while evils are
sufferable. than to nyht themseive: abolishing the forms to which they
are accistomed. But when a long (rain ef abuses and usurpations. Pure
suings inv ty the same obicet. cUinces a desitn tp reduce (enn under sb
solute despotisnr, iis thelr right, itis their cuty, to Uhrow off such govern
ment. and to provite new jauirds for their future security.
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