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Bobby Seale

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
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Call Conservative People Platform
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
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
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Constitution Defend Operation Right
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
BOBBY SEALE

Dreams Greatness Humanity Progressive Thinking
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
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Fact Jump Protest Start Thinking University
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
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
BOBBY SEALE

Friendship Myself Police Quite
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Attack Defend Ourselves Position Violence
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Death Objective Party Politics Struggle

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