The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALEI have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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’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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