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> [By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/by-1967-j-edgar-hoover-had-concluded-that-the-black-panther-party-had/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

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> [In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/in-its-attempt-to-crush-the-black-panthers-the-fbi-engineered/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

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## Other authors on Black panther

## More by Alexander Cockburn

> [There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/there-is-still-zero-empirical-evidence-that-anthropogenic-production/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/there-s-a-whole-journalistic-industrial-complex-dedicated-to-keeping/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/regulation-of-sexual-behavior-is-the-preferred-route-to-wider-social/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/the-travel-writer-seeks-the-world-we-have-lost-the-lost-valleys-of/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/they-keep-telling-us-that-in-war-truth-is-the-first-casualty-which-is/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/no-foundation-that-i-am-aware-of-has-hired-ex-journalists-to-promote/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/there-is-never-finality-in-the-display-terminal-s-screen-but-an/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/a-just-war-is-hospitable-to-every-self-deception-on-the-part-of-those/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/by-1967-j-edgar-hoover-had-concluded-that-the-black-panther-party-had/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/republicans-know-well-that-a-change-of-rhetorical-pace-is-necessary/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/a-childish-soul-not-inoculated-with-compulsory-prayer-is-a-soul-open/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/in-its-attempt-to-crush-the-black-panthers-the-fbi-engineered/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/nothing-can-inspire-religious-duty-or-animation-but-religion/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/the-art-of-politics-is-to-separate-actions-from-consequences/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

> [Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/despair-is-the-central-part-of-the-psychopathology-for-the-handmaiden/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

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