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 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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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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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We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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