Bobby Seale Quotes
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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution.
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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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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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We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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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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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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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.
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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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I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
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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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Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
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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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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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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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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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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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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 have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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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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You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.