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.
BOBBY SEALEElectoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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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 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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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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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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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