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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Bobby Seale

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
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
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
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
BOBBY SEALE

Attack Generation People Young
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
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
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

Oppression Ourselves People Realize Terms
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
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way
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
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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Defense Party Revolution
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
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
We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALE

Black Fact Oppression People Save

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