To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALEWe’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
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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.
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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.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
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Our position was: If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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I’d have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I’d just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
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