The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALEWe’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 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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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 Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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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 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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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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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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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