The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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
-
-
We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALE -
I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALE -
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE -
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 -
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 -
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
BOBBY SEALE -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
BOBBY SEALE -
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
BOBBY SEALE -
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 -
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
BOBBY SEALE -
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 -
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