I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
BOBBY SEALEThe 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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’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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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 have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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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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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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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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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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