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.
• The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!
• A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
• We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
• 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,…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
• I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
• 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,…
• We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
• You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
• 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…
• 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…
• Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
• I like Barack Obama.
• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

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