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Testing, testing, testing, testing. Uh, can we have some quiet, please? Behind the door. Here.

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Sorry about that. Uh, I'm Ross Gabryelski from SDS, and I have a couple short announcements. Uh, first, Professor William Elliott will be speaking in is 203

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at 430 Tuesday on the philosophy of Revolution, sponsored by the University and Revolution course. Shut up, shut up. Um, secondly, SDS is sponsoring a national student strike on the

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fourth and 5th of November in protest to the conduct and content of the political the major political parties in this election. Uh. Uh, Eldridge Cleaver's

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appearance is being sponsored locally by the University and Revolution Chorus. Uh, by by students for a Democratic society and by the Kennedy Political Union.

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And I'd now like to introduce Dennis Sinclair, who is national coordinator for the Peace and Freedom Party. The Peace and Freedom Party basically got a start in California.

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And, uh, somebody from California and, uh, has spread throughout the country with Eldridge Cleaver on the ballot in eight states with organizations in over 20 states, and it's the only political organization in existence today.

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That the political structure of the organization is controlled from the bottom up instead of the top down. And that. And that's where and that's what

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we're here for, and that's what we're all about. We're to return the power to the people. Uh, we're talking about independent political action, about organizing on campuses, in communities, These white

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communities and black communities to deal with the situation in the country today. Um, in many areas we have candidates running on the local level California, Michigan,

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Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin, uh, just to name a few. And we're trying to deal with the issues that affect people's lives and dealing with the institutions that affect people's lives. And in this respect, we feel that it takes that it takes an

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organization. It takes a political organization, and it takes people organized not only in an organizational manner, but it is to develop people's politics.

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Um, we feel that right now the people don't have any recourse, uh, with the parties in existence today and that we are trying to give a vehicle of recourse to deal with the situation. Right here in your university.

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Uh, I understand this year, uh, SDS is much larger than it ever has been before. Uh, just from being here for a few days, I've. I've felt an attitude on this campus that is, people are really

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concerned about the problems that are that are confronting us. Uh, the problems of racism, the problems of the political parties that exist, uh, the United States exploitation and different countries around the world.

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And what we want to do is we want to give you an organization where you can make the decisions, where you can carry out the plans and where you can affect the institutions in the country today.

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Now. The national structure of peace and freedom is a very loose structure. It's basically with local autonomy

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in many areas. There's many. Yeah. Fuck outside man.

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We're in here and we're going to stay here. So let's just continue, okay. Um. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to get organizational things going on campus.

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There are people here on campus who are interested, uh, in the next few days, we'll try to have some type of an organizational meeting where people can attend, and people can start working towards forming a peace and freedom party on this campus and

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start working on the issues that affect the students here. Um, one of the things that really impressed me when we came here is that you have this University and Revolution course, uh, that seems to be fairly democratic in a structure where the students seem

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to be deciding as to the curriculum that they want to plan, are the areas in which they want to go. I spoke to one of the sections last night, and I realized that a lot of the people in that section were really concerned and really

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ready to move and ready to move on the power structure of the country and try to change that power structure. Um, Peace and Freedom Party stands for liberation of all oppressed peoples, black people, white people.

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It stands for legalization of marijuana, immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, liberalization of the of the workers, Liberal liberation of the workers in this country. And we take a perspective that we have to get ourselves organized

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and we have to move on the situation as situations exist today. Um, and it's much harder to have this organizational thing take place in the white community where

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we don't feel the oppression as much as the oppression is felt in the black community. But I think at this point that we have to start understanding the situation.

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We have to start moving on the situation before the candidates who are running for office right now get into office. And that isn't and that isn't possible. Uh, I feel that there's going to be a big wave of repression in

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this country. I think that if we can get if we can get organizations moving on this national election and developing perspective, uh, beyond the election and definitely beyond

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the inauguration, uh, moving on issues in the community, then we will have the type of political structure, the type of organization where the people have control. And uh, uh, there is no centralized national structure

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that is dictating to the people what they should do and what type of ideology they should take, and what type of action they should take. This time, I would like to

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introduce you to the author of Soul on Ice, Minister of Information, the Black Panther Party, managing editor for ramparts magazine. And they can't get in because

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we're inside here. Why don't we move out to that? You look at the sun is shining. It was raining when we came in,

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and we're here. We have a very tight schedule. Okay. How hard?

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And also how hard is it raining? Is it shining? The sun is shining outside. Let's take a vote. We're moving outside.

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Bring Eldridge Cleaver here. In order to travel around the country. It takes funds. And during the course of

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Eldridge's talk, there will be people passing around baskets in the audience. We'd like to. We'd like you to.

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Whatever you can contribute to the Peace and Freedom Party, the Black Panther Party, the Huey Newton Defense Fund, where this money is going. We'd like you to Consider what you spend your money on and how it can

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be best put. We feel that this is that this is a very worthwhile function, that we're moving in a manner that is going to change the society.

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And in order to do that, in the capitalistic system that we have today, we have to have the money. Okay. Without any further talk about the

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Peace and Freedom Party. I'd like to introduce you to the author of Soul on Ice, managing editor of ramparts magazine, Minister of Information, the Black Panther Party, and Peace and

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Freedom's candidate for the presidency of the United States, Eldridge Cleaver. I want to say that I'm very glad to be here, particularly because this is the capital of the United

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States of America. The pig pen of Babylon. And. I'd like to come through here in a

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Sherman tank. This is the place where mass murder is plotted against the people. Where simple minded motherfuckers like Lyndon Baines Johnson, Hubert

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Humphrey, Richard Nixon and all these other political freaks enact their plots against the people. Yesterday I went down to see my parole officer in San Francisco to get his permission to come here.

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and he told me that he thought that I shouldn't come here because the FBI had contacted him and stated that because some black cat had been shot by a cop for jaywalking, that the situation here was too tense, that they didn't want anybody here talking

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crazy. And that it would be better if I didn't show up here. Well, my parole officer has been

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through a lot of changes, and so he left it up to me. It was my decision. And so I came and fucked J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, all of them, because they seem to have

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forgotten that they are public servants, that they don't own the people of this country. They're supposed to be carrying out a job for the people.

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And I know that they're here today, And I wonder if they will stand up and identify themselves. Are there any pigs here today? It's a strange situation when you know that they are here amongst the people, but for some strange

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reason they won't stand up. They must be up to something wrong. Because I don't know why.

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Why do they feel that it's necessary for them to hide? To infiltrate audiences and to sneak around and peep around and snoop on the people. There must be something wrong with

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what they're doing. Infiltrating. They must be enemies of the people instead of public servants. I say there are enemies of the people because this entire

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government, the entire government of the United States, well, all of the governments in the United States, state, local, federal, secret, undercover, behind the scenes, all of the pigs of the power structure are the enemies of the people, so they do well to

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sneak around and infiltrate audiences and not make themselves known. Because I'm sure that there will be somebody who will remember their face.

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And when the shit goes down, that somebody might grab them by their neck and break it, because that's what happens to the pigs. That's what happens to the pigs in a situation that we're in and the one that we're coming into, they want to make us believe that the

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people in this country have become impotent, that there's nothing that they can do to move, to control their own destiny, that, in fact, you have to leave it up to buffoons like this racist pig from Alabama, George Wallace, or this my homeboy, my homeboy Bone

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Nose Nixon and Meathead Humphrey. Listen, I don't know how many of you are going to vote in November. But I will tell you this.

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I'm not here seeking votes. I'm the presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party. But it's only the visionaries

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within the party who think that we're going to have a president in the white House this time around. As a matter of fact, if I was elected, I would not enter the white House.

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I would send a wrecking crew there to burn the motherfucker down. Burn it down. And we could build a monument to the decadence of the past.

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On the ashes that will be left. Because there is nothing happening there. There's never been a president in that building who has done his job, or who has fulfilled his responsibilities to the people.

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There have been gangsters, criminals and cutthroats in that white House, and it needs to be abolished, along with the political machinery in this country that allows them to wiggle their way into that.

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It needs to be abolished. If you don't realize that, then you don't understand what's going on in the world today. You don't understand the task

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confronting your generation. And you're not going to be able to deal with it when it's thrust upon you. It's coming to you.

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You have pigs like General Hersey, General Curtis LeMay, General Edwin Walker from Texas. You remember him? He was the first of the Mad Men to manifest himself out of the ranks of the United States Army in our

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time. I don't know what. I just want to cuss. You dig it?

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Washington, D.C.. Some cold shit. But I come from a state where they have this place they call Disneyland.

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And we have a governor out there from Disneyland also. His name is Mickey Mouse. Regan.

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You're probably familiar with him from having suffered through some of his great B movies, you know? But I think he did all of us a favor, because there were a lot of people who were confused by him.

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They didn't know really where he was at. They had some suspicions. But when the students at Berkeley offered to let me participate in a

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course there, he ran out front and winked in the face of the people. And now they see him for what he is, uh, racist pig who has nothing on his mind. Nothing.

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But he has behind him a lot of political manipulators who have power on their minds. Number one amongst them is this Donald Duck Rafferty.

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Max Rafferty, have you ever heard of him? Have you ever heard of Max Rafferty? Yeah. Too bad, cause he's bad news.

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He's built a career and snooping around in the textbooks. Combing through the footnotes to try to find the word communism or red.

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Or a lot of other categories that he thinks are subversive. And he managed to wiggle his way into public office that way. This punk has a PhD in physical education. They call him Doctor Rafferty.

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He's a doctor of baseball and volleyball. And some of them other balls that he's into.

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He's a simple punk. That's what he is. But I say I'm most concerned with this man, Ronald Reagan.

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Because I challenged him to a duel. I was serious about that. I reiterate the challenge right here in the capital of the United

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States. That I challenge Ronald Reagan to a duel. To the death.

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Or until he says, Uncle Eldridge, dig it. And. And I will give him the choice of weapons.

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He could choose anything from a baseball bat, a knife, a gun or a marshmallow. And I'll beat him to death with a marshmallow. That's what he's into.

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But the punk didn't accept the challenge. They asked him about it at a news conference, and he came out with some long verbiage, you know, but

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I told him I'd meet him in the alley on a dark street, anywhere, and I'd kick him in his ass because that's what he needs. That's what he needs. But what he did, instead of moving

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to deal with that situation, he went to my parole officer, to the prison officials, and he's got these chumps talking about, I got to go back to the penitentiary. I ain't going.

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I'm not going. They differ. If he wants anybody to go back, I say he can send his mama there and he can go back there with her and be herself partner, if they're

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into that, I don't know. But he's into so much other bullshit that I can't begin to relate to him, or the pro people, or those pigs who control those penitentiaries.

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I went there once. I went on a field trip for you to investigate that shit so that you wouldn't have to go. And I'm here now to give my report.

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And I just want to say, I want to make it brief. That there ain't nothing there that you need to go there to get. You can get it out here. We got pigs out here, and they

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have pigs in there, and they all oink in the same voice. So you don't need to go in there to investigate that. I'm satisfied with the time that I spent there. While I was there, I went to every part of it, from the hospital to

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solitary confinement. I didn't like anything about it, including the medicine. And they can have it.

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And I'm not going back. I'd rather stay out here and die out here than to go back in there and have those pigs having me up against the wall.

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Later. For that, I'm going to stay out here. Shoot me down in the streets. Shoot me right now.

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I'm not going back to the penitentiary. I didn't leave nothing there except half of my mind and half of my soul. They can have that later for it.

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So, Mickey Mouse, Regan. Lyndon Baines Johnson, meathead Humphrey, bone nose Nixon and this little featherweight featherbrain punk from Alabama.

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Later for you. Later for everything that you're into. Because what we're about is bringing an end to your game. It's overdue, and you can no longer get away with it.

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I don't give a fuck how many signs they have up there. Talking about Nixon is the one. Yeah, he is the one. He is the one.

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He's the one going into the white House in November. All this propaganda about a groundswell of public opinion for George Wallace.

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All of this is publicity manipulated and paid for by Richard Nixon, because he wants to be able to come before the people and say, we have a wild eyed radical on the right. I'm in the middle.

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And we had a wild eyed, flaming, left wing radical meathead Humphrey on the left. We can't be going for that. We have to start thinking about

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alternative, alternative ways of dealing with this situation. I say this that since they have closed all the channels for a redress of the grievances of the people, that we have to look at history for precedents.

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And we have a very fine one that they call the Boston Tea Party. We need another Boston Tea party from one end of Babylon to the other, because if we can't get it

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that way, and I'm not talking about a tea party where white people will put on some Indian clothes and some hair dressers and come out and pretend to be dissatisfied. I'm talking about white people coming out in their own face with

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some real Indians there, with some black people there were some Puerto Ricans there. With every ethnic group that we have in this country there to protest, not only to protest, but

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to take some action, to drag the pigs of the power structure out by their ears and throw them into the garbage cans of history where they belong, because they are non-functional for us today. But they have going for us today will not work.

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I don't care whether they like it or not. I know they don't like it, but what they have to do is to just come on out front, tear up the Constitution, let the people know that the Constitution and the Bill of rights are nothing but toilet

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paper, so that they can begin to wonder, what is the relationship between the people in this country. We say all power to the people. Black power for black people.

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White power for white people. Red power for red people. Brown power for brown people, yellow power for Mao Tse tung, Ho Chi Minh and all of their brothers and sisters.

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Whether the pigs of the power structure, like it or not, whether they like it or not, whether you like it or not, whether you can relate to it, the oppressed people of the world are moving. They're not going to accept this shit any longer.

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And we are here, within the belly of the whale in Babylon, to join forces with them. Not ashamed of it, in fact, proud of it.

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Proud to take our place in the ranks of the revolutionary Third World. And we ask all white people who can relate to that to come out and help to deal with this situation so that the people of the world

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can be liberated. I know that a lot of people listen. I know that a lot of people,

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particularly black people, get uptight when I say white power for white people. Someone asked me one day, what are you talking about, man? White people.

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For white people. I mean, they've been fucking over us all this time. And why do you want to give us

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more power? Even talk about power for them. But the point is that white people may think that they've had power in this country, but they've had pig power masquerading in their name.

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They've had pig power, or else why would they need power in their hands now in order to get the pigs off their backs? I think that that distinction is becoming clear.

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The contradiction is becoming more apparent, and we need definitions that will distinguish the people from the pigs. Because there are more people in

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this country than there are pigs. There's the pigs in the audience of cops, racist Gestapo pigs. But there are more people here

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than there are pigs. And if I thought that there were more pigs here than there are people, I would just stand up here and oink so that they could understand it.

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See, there are more people in this country than there are pigs. Now, they put out a lot of lying propaganda about the Black Panther Party. They say that the Black Panther

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Party is a conspiratorial organization that is racist, and that what it wants to do is to drive through the white suburbs and to murder all the little white children. Well, this is part of their program of distortion to

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perpetuate confusion so that the people in this country will be looking at each other as their enemies instead of focusing on the true enemies of the people. If you notice any news about the

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Black Panther Party, what you've heard in terms of violence, it's always been cases of members of the party in confrontation with the police departments. You cannot find any instance of

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members of the Black Panther Party in any altercations with people, just plain ordinary Joes and Johns, ordinary citizens from the community. You won't find that, but you find

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instances where we defend ourselves against these pigs who come into our community like an occupying army, who are there to protect the interests of these businessmen, there to keep black people suppressed and contained.

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Yeah, we repudiate them. We want them out of our community. And we're going to get him out if we have to drive him out with guns because they're there with guns.

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They're there with guns. Black people in this country have lived under the gun every minute that they've been here, and we want an end to that.

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And the only way that we see to bring an end to that is to get their guns out of our community. And we think we have a right to that. We believe we have a right to that.

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We don't see any reason why we have to submit to that kind of shit. Take their guns back to the white community.

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If the white community will tolerate that. But get out of our community. Our demand is that those who police our community must live in

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our community. You're going to come in there, brutalize us. You come there and go to sleep at

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night so we will know how to find you. Because when you brutalize us, you shoot us. We're going to hang you by your motherfucking neck until you're dead.

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And you need to know that. You need to know that just as the Jews hunted down Adolf Eichmann, we're going to keep a list ourselves. And when we get our hands on you, we're going to execute you for

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crimes against the people. Why is it why is it that you could take Hitler and his followers, Mussolini and his followers, Tojo and his followers, and take them to Nuremberg and put them on trial

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for being war criminals? Well, you're just as much war criminals as they are. You are human rights criminals. You're guilty of denying the people life, liberty and fuck you

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and the pursuit of happiness. You're guilty of that. We no longer accept it. We've never really dug it.

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And we're just now getting into a situation where we know we don't have to go for it any longer. And we're very glad about that. And we're not going to miss this opportunity, because it looks to

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us like we have genocide in store for us on the horizon. When we have a pig like George Wallace running around here receiving the endorsement of General Hersey, the same chump who sends these greetings to these young black brothers?

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And you, young white brothers here to go to Vietnam and murder those people over there. For what? Anytime we have a punk like that.

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A general produced by this army. And another one, Curtis LeMay, who has the audacity to be the running mate of George Wallace and then Edwin Walker. Anytime an army produces three men like that, I say that it needs to

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be abolished. Lock, stock and barrel. That we don't need it. We don't need an army.

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We don't need an army because the people of the world need armies against this army. Because whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the United States of America has

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become the number one enemy of mankind. The number one obstacle to human progress, and they're doing all of these things in the name of the people talking about us in the interest of the people, that these things be done.

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And that's a lie. That's a lie. The people in this country have no interest, no vested interest in continuing that murderous war in Vietnam.

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They have no interest in perpetrating these wars on the people of the world. In fact, the interests of this country, the interest of the people of this country, is to put

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an end to wars, put an end to exploitation, and put an end to all of the contradictions amongst the people, because there is no longer any need for that. There's no need for that shit.

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Technologically speaking, productivity is such in this country. The means of production are so vast in this country that there is absolutely no reason for the

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people in this country to be involved in a dog eat dog rat race for existence. There's no reason for that shit. The only reasons we don't have economic reasons for that.

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There are only political reasons. The fact that this system is organized on a capitalistic basis, that in order for everything or anything to happen in this country, some big fat capitalist

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has to be able to make a profit or to see some possibility of making a profit. I say that we need to put an end to the profit motive in civilization and substitute one of

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cooperation. Substitute the profit. Substitute the principle of cooperation because there is no conflict on the face of the planet Earth today that cannot be solved.

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Everything from the war between the Jews and Arabs that even can be solved. They're all the same people. They're all Semitic over there.

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If you get these capitalistic, imperialistic bastards out of Vietnam, if you get them out of the Middle East, stop them from supplying arms to both sides. You can put an end to that conflict.

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Let them know that they're not going to be able to continue stealing the oil from the Middle East, that the revenue from the oil there should go to build up a life for the people there. And all of the resources of the planet Earth should be employed to

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ensure that every man, woman and child on the face of the planet Earth receives the very highest and the best standard of living that human knowledge and technology is capable of providing.

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They have a right to that. Anything standing in the way of that has to go. Anything and everything that stands in the way of that has to go.

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And we have no need of being fearful of taking a stand on that, because, after all, the only thing they could do is to put us in the penitentiary or kill us. That's the only choice they have.

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The only choice they have, as far as I'm concerned, is killing me because penitentiary has been ruled out and we all that we all need to get into a frame of mind where we do not be intimidated by pigs and helicopters, pigs

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crawling around on the ground, pigs masquerading as pigs masquerading as members of the mass media, or the pigs of the mass media themselves. We don't have to be intimidated by

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them. We don't have to. We don't have to go for their lies. We have to recognise that the basic problem in this country

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today is that of confusion, primarily because of the distortions and the lies that we hear over radio, television and through the newspapers and magazines. They helped to clean up the lies and smooth over and gloss over all

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of this shit that's going on. You have a president who's been repudiated by his own party because he's a liar. He's not the first president who was a liar.

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And the next chapter gets in there. He's going to be a lying motherfucker. See? Because he's lying to get in. You dig it? They call that a credibility gap.

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What does that mean? Those American euphemisms. He's a lying motherfucker. That's what he is. From Texas.

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From Texas, where they like everything big. See? So he's a big liar from Big Texas, where they like everything big.

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A big liar. See, he made a big mistake, too. First thing he did when he got into the white House would turn off all the lights.

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Remember that? Talking about he was trying to save money on the electricity bill. He wasn't interested in saving

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money, or he wouldn't be blowing up all that money in those bombs that he's sending over to Vietnam. That's not his concern. You remember his partner, Walter Jenkins?

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They called him dirty in a toilet somewhere on the eve of the election, trying to get another vote for his partner. Well, I mean, he was campaigning too. He was doing his own thing the best he knew how.

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And that might have something to do with why that chump turned off all those lights. I don't know. I mean, this we're at a university.

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This is where you're supposed to deal in speculation. So I'm just speculating. I don't have no concrete information.

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But there's something wrong there. Something up under there. You know. I want to say something to the ladies here.

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Is it against the law to cuss in Washington, D.C.? Well, I didn't endorse that law. I'm a taxpayer, too. I get robbed for my money like everybody else.

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And I don't authorize a law against Eldridge Cleaver standing up on the campus of American University and saying, fuck the pigs of the power structure. I endorse the law that would

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permit that. So all of you misguided pigs who may be thinking of arresting me for that, I want you to know that as a member of the public and as one of your employers, go

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somewhere else and watch some of those Republicans and Democrats where the crimes are being plotted and where you would be doing the most good. We don't need you here.

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As a matter of fact, we don't want you here. You're out of order. Go back and tell this decrepit punk J. Edgar Hoover that he has a misconception of his job.

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Not only do we want to abolish his office, we want to abolish him because he's been around too long. He's been around too long. And the only place I see for him is in a museum.

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The museum somewhere along with the army. Along with the Democratic Party, along with the Republican Party, along with NBC, ABC, the CIA, and all the rest of that shit later for us.

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But I want to say this to the ladies. That political power grows out of the lips of a pussy.

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And we call that pussy power. And what we need in this country is a movement amongst women that they go running off. They haven't heard the rest of it.

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See? Come back here with that thing. Bring that thing back here. I want to talk about it. Look here.

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We need a movement in this country amongst the women who recognize that today, everybody in this country is either part of the solution or part of the problem. And we want to get to one point across that everything can be

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progressive or it can be reactionary. It can even be revolutionary. Even love. Romance.

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Sex. Fucking adultery. Fornication. Hello, father.

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It could be that way. It could be progressive. And I'm saying that the women who feel that they're part of the solution.

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How can you justify laying up with part of the problem? You can't do that. I'm saying that we need to employ every weapon at our disposal.

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And as far as these men are concerned, you have the ultimate weapon between your thighs, and you ought to use it. Use it with some discrimination.

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Yes, sir. Instead, you dig it instead of just squandering the resources of the people that way. I'm saying.

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I'm saying that you can put these chumps up tight by cutting them off. Cut them off, and don't give them no more sugar until they straighten up their hand.

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All these black cats cut them off until they joined the Black Panther Party. All these white cats cut them off until they straighten up their hands.

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Join the Peace and Freedom Party, help to put some backbone in it. Relate to the necessity of men continuing to realize that they're still the defenders of the tribe,

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that the tribe has been aggressed upon by pigs. And it's necessary to bring the pigs to bay a bay of pigs right here in Babylon. See, that's what we need right

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here. So I'm telling you, girls, get yourself some buttons. If you don't have the heart to

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stand up and say pussy power on your lapel, just say p power and the people will understand what you mean. But you are not justified in giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

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Drive these chumps away from you. If they come to you on the telephone. Hang up in their face. If they write you letters.

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Tear them up and flush them down the toilet. And if they come knocking on your door. SIC a dog on them. But make them act in a desired

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manner. Or don't let them act at all. Later for him. And if you don't do that.

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All I can say is shame on you. You might as well go and lay up with Lyndon Johnson or meet her at Humphrey Bone, old Nixon, Wallace Rafferty, or that chump from California by the name of Mickey

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Mouse. Regan. Go lay up with them and make it obvious as to where you're at, because what you're doing now is slowing down time, slowing down

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the revolution, slowing down the struggle, and let these chumps masquerade as men just because they've been born with a dick between their legs. Don't make them a man.

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There are other standards that you have to live up to. This is why we say that certain people behave as though they are less than a man. So there are standards to live up

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to, and one of those standards is to see to it that the people, the people are not suppressed and oppressed and suffering under the yoke of these pigs. So I would ask you to get into

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that, and I'm going to keep on talking about it, and you ought to be glad that I'm doing it, because I'm doing it because none of you have the gall to stand up here and do it for yourself. I know that there must have been a lot of you who wanted to do that.

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There must have been a lot of you who want to talk about that in public, but you probably felt a little intimidated by the Victorian morals that you read in the newspapers that you see on television, and that masquerade as the behaviour of the people.

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Goodbye, all you old people. I don't know why you came down here in the first place. Later for you.

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Listen. Then all of these fathers are motherfuckers. They're motherfuckers.

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They fuck their wives in order to have babies. Your mother and your father laid up and fucked. That's how you got here. You didn't come out of no test

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tube and the no stork bring you here. So what they want you to say? Intercourse. That don't mean nothing. That don't ring no bell for me.

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I say pussy power. I say motherfucker. Every father is a motherfucker and every mother is a father fucker. And you're a hypocritical.

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You're hypocritical. You have a word problem if that puts you uptight. And one of the reasons that I go around talking like this in public is not because I don't have over a five word vocabulary.

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I can straighten up on a few words, but I do this because I know that it puts a lot of these chumps uptight, and I want to keep them uptight in every way that I can think of, every way that I can think of.