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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.

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

Average Government Live Money Person Politics Rich Talk White
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Call Conservative People Platform
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
BOBBY SEALE

Move Observation Police Scare Stand
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Fact Jump Protest Start Thinking University
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
BOBBY SEALE

Business Money Myself Raise Try
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
BOBBY SEALE

Defense Party Revolution
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Musician Myself Revolution Trouble
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Language Party People Talk Thinking Understand
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

Constitution Defend Operation Right
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

Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
BOBBY SEALE

Hate Ideal Medium Money Yourself
I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALE

Change Fire Politics Realize Revolution

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