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WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

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"If a man is not protected from cruel and unreasonable battery at the pleasure of his assailant, how can he be protected from circle and unreasonable battery at the pleasure of his assailant, how can he be protected from the liability to be killed by such battery?  And if the law permits the optional battery of a man, what power can it retain to punish him for the natural effects of such battery?  Will the law allow one man to beat another a much as he pleases , or shoot him, ( as in the case last cited,)  and then punish him because the man is thus killed?"

`”SECHABA: The leadership of the Black Panther Party has come under very sever attack during the past year.   Can you tell us what effects these attacks have had on the Party?

NEWTON: Repression breeds resistance.  We feel that by virtue of the fact that we are being attacked, and the attacks simply because we are threatening them. We are threatening their very foundation, their very existence.  Otherwise they should try to pretend to the world that this is democracy and they would support our right to freedom of speech, our right to freedom of the press, and our right to political activity.  But all these so-called democratic civil rights are denied the Black Panther Party, which is the vanguard of the people.  So the Party must be hitting a sensitive spot: it must be threatening the bureaucratic imperialistic capitalist.  We welcome all attacks.  We will overcome all obstacles and advance wave upon wave.  We will rid the world of the bourgeoisie and destroy all of the monsters, and the whole world will belong to the people. " What did BLACK PEOPLE GET FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, 12/22/2015- Despite there being no indictments for Bland’s death..., 12/12/12015-Jurors who've said they're deadlocked in the trial of Baltimore police Officer William Porter...

 

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