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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.

Bobby Seale

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.
BOBBY SEALE

Language Party People Talk Thinking Understand
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Constitution Defend Operation Right
We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

Color Hate Oppression
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
BOBBY SEALE

Friendship Myself Police Quite
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
BOBBY SEALE

Defense Party Revolution
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Determination People Point Power Program
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALE

Design Dimension Father Master Myself
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
BOBBY SEALE

Hate Ideal Medium Money Yourself
We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALE

Black Fact Oppression People Save
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Oppression Ourselves People Realize Terms
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Attack Defend Ourselves Position Violence
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALE

Change Fire Politics Realize Revolution

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