I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALEWe 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.
More Bobby Seale Quotes
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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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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’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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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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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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I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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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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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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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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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