I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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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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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
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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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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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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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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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 only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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