There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
BOBBY SEALEWe 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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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 don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
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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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