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 SEALEI think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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 always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
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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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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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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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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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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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