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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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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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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.
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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 were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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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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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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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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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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