I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALEI 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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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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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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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 Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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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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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 always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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