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A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Bobby Seale

Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
BOBBY SEALE

Hate Ideal Medium Money Yourself
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALE

Design Dimension Father Master Myself
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
BOBBY SEALE

Friendship Myself Police Quite
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.
BOBBY SEALE

Oppression Ourselves People Realize Terms
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party – whose members for the most part come from the ghetto – seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people’s language.
BOBBY SEALE

Language Party People Talk Thinking Understand
There’s nothing wrong with being a cop. There’s nothing wrong with being a white person. It’s about where your heart is…We’ve got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
BOBBY SEALE

Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
BOBBY SEALE

Attack Generation People Young
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn’t want to give a long dissertation.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Determination People Point Power Program
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

Color Hate Oppression
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist Live politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.
BOBBY SEALE

Average Government Live Money Person Politics Rich Talk White
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
BOBBY SEALE

Move Observation Police Scare Stand
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

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