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 SEALEThere is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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 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 only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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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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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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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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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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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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