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 SEALEWe’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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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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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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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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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 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.
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