Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

BLACK POti~tER : Pogo 5
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I am charged with inciting Blacl~: Pco-ple
to commit ~n offense , .by tvay .of :protest
against the law, a lave in ,~%rh.ich
neither I nor spy . of ,~y people have any
say in preparing. The Iaw age~inst v~.ihich
the protest was direbted ~thi; la~ni ~:a~hich
denies freedom) is the law tivhich c stc;b-lished
this country .
.
I consider myself
neither morally
nor legally
bound to obey the
lavas made by a
body, in which I
ha~re no represent
ttion . That the
w~ll of the peop~e
is the basis
q~' the authority
,bf governm.ent, is
principle uni-
~ersally acknowlobed
as sacred
all over the civilized
world and
constitutes the
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basic foundation
and is l©golly bound by the lavJS braver
ing this country,
It should be equally understandab~.e
that we, as Black People, should ads t
the attitude that wo arc neither moral y
nor legally bound to obey laws wh cli
were not made with .our consent and v~hich
°seek to oppress us . Nor can we lie° expected
to have confidence in cou,r'~s the~t
int©rpret and enforce such lavi~s . The
white man makes all the laws, he drags
us before .h.is courts, he accuses us, and
he sits in judgement -o~ror us, : . _: . . . . . . . .
Do not deeeiv© yourselves into believing
that penalties will deter men from
the course that they believe is right .
History shows that penalties do not doter
my people or the colleagues with
whom I ha ve worked .
We stand on thQ eve of a ,Black Revolur
tion . Masses of our people are on the
move, fighting the enemy tit-for-tat,
responding to counter-revolutionary vio-
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lance with revolutionary vialcxico, an
eye for an eye, a tooth for t; tooth,