“Nobody could have possibly known that the FBI had sent a phony letter to Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, ‘signed’ by the Panther 21, criticizing Huey Newton’s leadership... no one could have known that the FBI’s cointelpro was attempting to destroy the Black Panther Party in particular, and the Black Liberation movement in general, using divide-and-conquer tactics.”

“Nobody could have possibly known that the FBI had sent a phony letter to Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, ‘signed’ by the Panther 21, criticizing Huey Newton’s leadership... no one could have known that the FBI’s cointelpro was attempting to destroy the Black Panther Party in particular, and the Black Liberation movement in general, using divide-and-conquer tactics.”

— Assata Shakur