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 SEALEThe 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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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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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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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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