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.
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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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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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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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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 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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I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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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.
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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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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 have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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