We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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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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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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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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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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 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 Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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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 Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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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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