Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in California.

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Oakland will be the birthplace of revolution in the United States.
- Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power

I live in Oakland, California, the city where the Black Panther Party was created in 1966. We still have major issues with police racism, police violence. I spoke not long ago at an event in celebration of the seventeenth birthday of a young man who had been recently killed near one of the high schools by the police... there's a reason why most people never have the opportunity to look at the Black Panther Party "Ten-Point Program," because those points are still very much on the agenda today.
- Angela Davis Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)

Oakland is this kind of town: You have to pay 50 cents to go from Oakland to San Francisco. Coming to Oakland from San Francisco is free.
- Jim Murray, "As Usual, Class Will Out," Los Angeles Times (October 15, 1973)

Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
- Brian Reynolds Myers, "Mother of All Mothers" The Atlantic (September 2004)

From Oakland to Sac-Town, the Bay Area and back down, Cali is where they put their mack down, give me love!
- Tupac Shakur, "California Love" (1996)