Bobby Seale Quotes
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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution.
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We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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.
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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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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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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.
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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.
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I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.
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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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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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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.
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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.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
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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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When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
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I like Barack Obama.
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If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
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I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
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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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You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.