You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALEOur position was: If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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 am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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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 Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.
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Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
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