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.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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