During the start of the Black panthers, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, along with a few other Black Panther members drew up a list, similar to the functions of the constitution, to state what they stood for and what they were going to demand and fight for.
TEN-POINT PROGRAM
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5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teahces us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
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6. We want all black men to be exempt from military servic. We believe that black peole 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. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
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7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.
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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 disolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the Earth, the seperate 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 seperation.
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