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 SEALEYou don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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