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When a mechanic wants to fix a broken-down car engine, he must have the necessary tools to do the job. When the people move for liberation, they must have the basic tool of liberation - the gun.
SF: Black Panther Party, nd. (1969). Four-panel greeting card, blank interior, with b/w artwork of armed Panthers by Emory Douglas, the Party’s Minister of Culture. Measures 17.8x25.4cm. (unfolded); 17.8x12.7cm. (folded).
One of a series of twelve revolutionary greetings cards that were sold by the BPP to raise funds.
The quotation is taken from the third page of Huey P. Newton’s 4pp. pamphlet, “In Defense of Self-Defense”, originally distributed at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Black Power Forum in 1967.
Near Fine.