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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.

Bobby Seale

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.
BOBBY SEALE

Attack Defend Ourselves Position Violence
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way
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
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
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 think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
BOBBY SEALE

Dreams Greatness Humanity Progressive Thinking
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Determination People Point Power Program
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 SEALE

Death Objective Party Politics Struggle
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
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
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALE

Design Dimension Father Master Myself
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
BOBBY SEALE

Drawing Hands People Society Suffering
We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALE

Black Fact Oppression People Save
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
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
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself

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