Each person has an obligation to preserve himself. We will not sit around and allow ourselves to be murdered. As a matter of fact, we have drawn a line of demarcation and we will no longer tolerate fascism, aggression, brutality, and murder of any kind. The Black Panther Party will not accept the total destruction of the people. If you do not have the things necessary to get you to that shore, then you will probably not exist.Īt this time the ruling circle threatens us to the extent that we are afraid that we might not exist to see the next day or see the revolution. You need a few things to last until you can get to the shore, until you can get to that oasis where you can be happy and healthy. It is a program that works very much like the first aid kit that is used when a plane falls and you find yourself in the middle of the sea on a rubber raft. The theme of our Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention is “Survival Through Service to the People.” At our convention we will present our total survival program. We do say that if the people are not here revolution cannot be achieved, for the people and only the people make revolutions. We don’t even claim it to be a revolutionary program. We must not regard our survival programs as an answer to the whole problem of oppression. But if we get the relatives, parents, and friends to the prisons they can expose the treachery of the fascists. We call it “The Bus for Relatives and Parents of Prisoners,” We realize that the fascist regime that operates the prisons throughout America would like to do their treachery in the dark. That is why we have a breakfast program for children. They cannot do this if they do not get the correct nutrition. It is necessary for our children to grow up healthy with functional and creative minds. In order to exist, we must survive therefore, we need a survival kit: the Ten Point Program. But until we can achieve that total transformation, we must exist. We intend to change all of that, and in order to change it, there must be a total transformation. And the ruling circle in North America is responsible. We, the people, are threatened with genocide because racism and fascism are rampant in this country and throughout the world.
A Ten point Program is not revolutionary in itself, nor is it reformist. Tonight, I would like to outline for you the Black Panther Party’s program and explain how we arrived at our ideological position and why we feel it necessary to institute a Ten Point Program.
How can we have a convention if we have no people? Some believe a people’s convention is possible without the people being there. After all, the people are the makers of world history and responsible for everything.
We cannot have that convention if the people do not come. On the 28th and 29th of November we will have a People’s Revolutionary Constitutional convention in Washington, D.C. For all political prisoners and prisoners of war. Chairman, for Ericka Huggins, for Angela Davis, for the New York 21 and the Soledad Brothers. I would be in a maximum security penitentiary if it were not for the power of the people.
Power to the people, brothers and sisters. I would like to thank you for my presence here tonight because you are responsible for it.
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