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    The Black Panther Manifesto outlined a strict set of rules and guidelines for party members, including abstaining from drugs and following their 10-point program. The 10-point program demanded freedom, employment, an end to capitalist exploitation of black communities, decent housing, education that teaches true black history, an exemption from military service for black men, an end to police brutality against black people, freedom for black prisoners, black people to be tried by juries of their peers, and access to basic needs like food, shelter and justice. The Panthers saw these demands as necessary to achieve equality and self-determination for black communities.

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    MAY 13, 2017

    The Black Panther Manifesto (1966)


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    The Black Panther Manifesto (1996)
    The Black Panther Manifesto relied on a strict and uncompromising regimen to mold its members
    into a unified and cohesive revolutionary force. Like the Muslims, the party denounced all
    intoxicants, drugs, and artificial stimulants "while doing party work." The intellectual fare of every
    party member was the ten-point program, which every member was obliged to know, understand,
    and even commit to memory.

    1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine


    We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.

    2. We Want Full Employment For Our People.


    We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment
    or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full
    employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the
    community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give
    a high standard of living.
    3. We Want An End To The Robbery
    By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
    We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt
    of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution
    for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which
    will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the
    genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has
    taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest
    demand that we make.

    [black-and-white photo of a group of Black Panthers standing outside on the sidewalk. One
    member is doing push-ups. Caption: Black Panthers demonstrating outside Manhattan, New York
    courthouse.]

    4. We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.


    We believe that if the White Landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then
    the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government
    aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.

    5. We Want Education For Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American
    Society.
    We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role In The Present-Day Society.
    We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does
    not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to
    relate to anything else.

    6. We Want All Black Men To Be Exempt From Military Service.


    We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist
    government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world
    who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. We will
    protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by
    whatever means necessary.

    7. We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.


    We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense
    groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and
    brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear
    arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense.

    8. We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And
    Jails.
    We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they
    have not received a fair and impartial trial.

    9. We Want All Black People When Brought To Trial To Be Tried In Court By A Jury Of Their
    Peer Group Or People From Their Black
    Communities, As Defined By The Constitution Of The United States.
    We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will
    receive fair trials. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be
    tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical,
    environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury
    from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being,
    tried by all-White juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the Black
    community.
    10. We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace.
    When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
    bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the
    separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent
    respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to
    the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by
    their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
    happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just
    powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes
    destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new
    government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to
    them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

    Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light
    and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed
    to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they
    are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
    object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
    throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

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