Emory Douglas Quotes
They believed in self-defense, which is a constitutional right — the Second Amendment of the Constitution gave me the right to bear arms. And they carried that out in an organized manner, a very disciplined and very organized manner. And that was the first phase of the Black Panther Party. But there’s also the phase of dealing with the social programs, the political solidarity, … and international politics as well. It was an organization for human rights.
Emory Douglas
Quotes to Explore
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto Eco
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
[Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
D. T. Suzuki
When we got organized as a country, and wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
Bill Clinton
Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
Victor Hugo
If you go to Canada or Los Angeles, you will get to see many South Asians there, but on screens, they are so less in number. It is abnormal not to have much South Asians on screens.
Radhika Apte
I do not believe you could intellectually comprehend all the different forces playing upon us. Yet what you can do is become very silent, so you are not distracted and then begin to feel how these forces playing upon us are affecting us, and according to how we feel, we can then make intelligent decisions as to how far, how deep, how much, we explore in any pose.
Bryan Kest
They believed in self-defense, which is a constitutional right — the Second Amendment of the Constitution gave me the right to bear arms. And they carried that out in an organized manner, a very disciplined and very organized manner. And that was the first phase of the Black Panther Party. But there’s also the phase of dealing with the social programs, the political solidarity, … and international politics as well. It was an organization for human rights.
Emory Douglas
