The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALEWe 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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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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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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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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 have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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