We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALEThe Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
-
-
I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALE -
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALE -
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE -
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.
BOBBY SEALE -
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
BOBBY SEALE -
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE -
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.
BOBBY SEALE -
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
BOBBY SEALE -
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 SEALE -
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 SEALE -
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE -
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
BOBBY SEALE -
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
BOBBY SEALE -
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.
BOBBY SEALE -
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE