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.
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’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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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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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 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 don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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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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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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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’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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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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