We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALEWe were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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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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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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