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Black Panther Party — Part 22

84 pages · May 22, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Black Panther Party · 84 pages OCR'd
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NSS ema le Gey ms tine ats ee tr oe ee SS Oy EP (§. We want ecece: @ for our people tbat J deeasent American stlety. We want We believe in an educational Sisto tral RHt give to our people a know edge of solf. If a man does not nave kroattedee of himself aid bis fcsiti in society and Ube world, then he has HO tua. recut to nary sersice. of to Richton the al We believe that Biack people shut tary service to defend a racist zove bl th urs HOt protect tts will not fight and kill ather people of catur in the world who, like be people, are being victimized by the w must povorament of A We will protect ourselves from Uw: Sure. wir! ciclonce of the racist pativ and the racist military, by whatever means i ary. . 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY aud MURDER of black people. . Vack community by - + cated to defending ons . wd ac tality. The Second ~ tes gives a right fe bear * le should arm themselves We believe we can end police bottais ganizing black self-defense proups that black community from racist police opp. Amendment to the Constilution of the Uatted 5! arms. We therefore believe that al! Mack po for self-defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men bei! ko oderai, fate | nty eud city prisons cnd Jalls. . We balicve that all black people should be released from the many “ Jails and prisons because they have nol received a fair and impartial trial. ‘ B. We want all black people when brought fu (rial to be tried {n court by Ror & Jury of their peer group or people fron: their bleck eansmurities, as... t wen baat defined by the Constitcttan of the United States. ° . . We believe that the courts should fi the Usitod Stutes Constitution 8c that black people will receive fair righ. The J4:h Amendment of the US. Constitetion gives aman a right to be toed Ly his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar ecstiurnic, social, petipivis, geographical, en- vronmentel, historical and rocial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury froin the ble F .ominuanty from which the black Gefundant came We have been, and are ting tried by all-white juries a that have no understunding of the “averaue reasoning mun” of the black ra community. ‘ oe 10, We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. ‘ And as our major polltical objective, a Unitud Nations-supervised plebls- cite to be held throughout the black colony in ehich only black colonlal - subjects will he allowed ta participate, fur the purpose of determining tae ? will of bizck people as to their natiunal destiny. ; When, in the course of human events it tomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political band: whica hace connerted them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth. the separate and equal station to which the laws cr. God entitle then, a decent respect to the opinions of mowkiid requ at they Should declare the causes which impel them to the separaiton, We hold these truths to be self evident, thet ali met are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator wits certain cnalicuatle rights: (that among these are life, liberty, aml pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are institaied among men, deriving their Just powers from tke consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or ta eholizh {t, and fo institute a new government, laying ts . Vg fonudatica on such principles, and organizing its powers {2 such form, as & to them shall soess inost Ekely to cffeed thal: safety and hepplness. Prue : dence, indeed, will dictate that governments Jong established should not “f be changed for light anc (rausieni causes: and «curdingdy, all experience a hath ghown, thet mankind are mog d dots suffer, while evils are 4 sufferable, than to right themsvices i& abolishing the forms to which they +e are accustomed. But, when 2 long train of abuses and wusvrpations, pure at suing Invariably the samme object, evieces 4 desis tu reduce thew under ab- 2 Solute despotism. It fs thelr right. ft Is their duty. t ment, and to provide new guards for Weir Qeiare dhrow off such govera- one en
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