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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.

Bobby Seale

I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALE

Change Fire Politics Realize Revolution
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Determination People Point Power Program
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Death Objective Party Politics Struggle
We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
BOBBY SEALE

Black Fact Oppression People Save
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
BOBBY SEALE

Fact Jump Protest Start Thinking University
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
BOBBY SEALE

Drawing Hands People Society Suffering
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
BOBBY SEALE

National Politics Revenge
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
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

Design Dimension Father Master Myself
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

Constitution Defend Operation Right
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
BOBBY SEALE

Business Money Myself Raise Try
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.
BOBBY SEALE

Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
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

Attack Generation People Young
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

Best Fight Racism Solidarity Way

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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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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