Bobby Seale Quotes

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  Violence, Position, Ifs

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

  Bobby Seale

  Fighting, Racism, Brotherhood

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

  Bobby Seale

  Men, Hands, America

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

  Bobby Seale

  Hate, Color, 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.

  Bobby Seale

  Heart, White, Cop

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  Hands, Long, People

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

  Bobby Seale

  People, Black, Facts

  Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, People, Black

  " Bobby Seale Still Fundraising For Scripted Black Panthers Life Story Feature Film" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2013.

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• To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

  Bobby Seale

  Political, Needs, Economic

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• When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

  Bobby Seale

  Hippie, Rights, Pigs

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.

  Bobby Seale

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

  Bobby Seale

  Gun, Hands, People

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  Dream, Thinking, World

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  People, Done, Way

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• We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

  Bobby Seale

  Government, Average, Talking

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• The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

  Bobby Seale

  People, Revolution, Pollution

  Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown

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

  Bobby Seale

  Fire, Political, Perception

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• I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

  Bobby Seale

  Community, Organizer

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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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

  Party, Ghetto, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• 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

  Writing, Destiny, Long

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  Hate, Make Things Happen, Mediums

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• We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

  Bobby Seale

  Moving, Hero, Firefighter

  "Super Bowl 50: The Hate Speech Halftime Show" by Katherine Ainsworth, blog.uspatriottactical.com. February 09, 2016.

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  America, Musician, Add

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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.

  Bobby Seale

  War, Party, California

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