My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALEThe 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 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 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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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