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