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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.

Bobby Seale

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
The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
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Black Call Conservative People Platform
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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Oppression Ourselves People Realize Terms
The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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Defense Party Revolution
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
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Community Myself Organization
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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National Politics Revenge
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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Fact Jump Protest Start Thinking University
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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Attack Defend Ourselves Position Violence
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
I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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Friendship Myself Police Quite
We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

Color Hate Oppression
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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Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
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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Design Dimension Father Master Myself
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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Musician Myself Revolution Trouble

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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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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