To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALEMy father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
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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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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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My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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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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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.
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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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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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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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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.
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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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