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April 10, 2026
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"Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild 'em, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano."
"Live fast, die young, have a good-looking corpse."
"Oh, sure, sure. I know—there must be some mistake. And poor Nick is innocent, and what a heel I am to be sitting here playing chess when he needs me. Well, you're wrong, honey. If he's innocent, this is the first time."
"What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... and have a good-looking corpse."
"Sunshine Jackson: How can a guy be happy and broke at the same time?"
"In every man's life, there are pinpoints of time that govern his destiny."
"Mickey Knox - Vito"
"I can still teach you a few, kid. You're just a tin-horn thug, and you always will be. You haven't got the guts to be anything else!"
"Barry Kelley - Judge Drake"
"George Macready - Dist. Atty. Kerman"
"Allene Roberts - Emma"
"Candy Toxton - Adele Morton (credited as Susan Perry)"
"Humphrey Bogart - Andrew Morton"
"John Derek - Nick Romano"
"What if the overseer had banded with the slaves and cut the master's throat? What then, comrade? We might not be in this funky-ass ghetto right now."
"The pigs do everything in their power to keep us isolated. Because they know, the day we get organized, it's over for their asses."
"Our job as the Black Panther Party is to heighten the contradictions."
"We ain't gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism, we gonna fight capitalism with socialism."
"So, if you were asked to make a commitment at age 20, and you said, 'I'm too young to die,' then you're dead already! If you dare to struggle, you dare to win! If you dare not struggle, then, God damn it, you don't deserve to win!"
"Put a fist in the air for Comrade Jimmy Palmer. Jimmy Palmer died a revolutionary death. He stood face-to-face and toe-to-toe with pig Daley's henchmen, and made the greatest sacrifice one could ever make."
"Drummer, lemme hear the people beat! This is what we call the people beat. Started in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It's the beat that manifests in you, the people. They can't never stop the party, unless they stop the people!"
"These motherfuckers ain't no terrorists. Shit, they're terrorizing me."
"You don't fight racism with racism. We gonna fight with solidarity."
"Robert Longstreet - Leslie Carlyle"
"Caleb Eberhardt - Bob Lee"
"Amber Chardae Robinson - Betty Coachman"
"Housing, justice, peace... Life, liberty, happiness. I mean, it's all right there in the Declaration of Independence. But when poor people demand it, it's a contradiction -- it's not Democracy, it's Socialism."
"Malcolm X College, I can dig it. Dr. Charles Hurst, direct from Howard. Right on. So, what? You think the students over there gonna be free now? Oh, they'll let you change the name of your college, or your own name, throw on a dashiki. 'Cause guess what? They still gonna drag your Black ass to Vietnam to shoot a poor rice farmer or get shot your damn self. That's the difference between revolution and the candy-coated facade of gradual reform. Reform is just the masters teaching the slaves how to be better slaves. Under reform, you could take the motherfucking masters out, and the slaves still be doin' all the work for 'em. There's a man called a capitalist. Don't matter what color he is, black, white, brown, red, don't matter. Because the capitalist has one goal. And that is to exploit the people. He can have on a three-piece suit or a dashiki, 'cause political power doesn't flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. Political power flows from the barrel of a gun. We in the Black Panther Party don't believe in no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you! Don't give me no five-and-dime costume of a medicine man or a witch doctor, or whatever you think the motherland look like. Give me the righteous threads of a Mozambican FRELIMO fighter."
"Ian Duff - Doc Satchel"
"Jermaine Fowler - Mark Clark"
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed"
"America's on fire right now and until the fire is extinguished don't nothin' else mean a goddamn thing."
"It's not a question of violence or non-violence. It's a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism! You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can't murder a revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter but you can't murder freedom! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! I am a revolutionary! [pause] I don't believe I'm gonna die in no car wreck! I don't believe I'm gonna die slippin' on no ice! I don't believe I'm gonna die 'cause I got a bad heart! I believe I'm gonna die doing what I was born for! I believe I'm gonna die high off the people! I'm gonna die for the people, 'cause I live for the people! I live for the people, 'cause I love the people!"
"There's strength in numbers. Power anywhere there's people."
"That motherfucker Fred, he could sell salt to a slug."
"Lil Rel Howery - Wayne"
"Dominique Thorne - Judy Harmon"
"Martin Sheen - J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI"
"Mark Francis - FBI Agent David Black"
"Amari Cheatom - Rod Collins"
"Dominique Fishback - Deborah Johnson"
"Ashton Sanders - Jimmy Palmer"
"Algee Smith - Jake Winters"
"I'm all for civil rights but you can't cheat your way to equality. And you certainly can't shoot your way to it."
"Daniel Kaluuya - Fred Hampton"
"LaKeith Stanfield - Bill O'Neal,"
"Darrell Britt-Gibson - Bobby Rush"
"Khris Davis - Steel"
"Jesse Plemons - Roy Mitchell"
"Jimmy Butler - himself"