A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
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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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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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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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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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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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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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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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 only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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 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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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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