Quotes by Bobby Seale - Page 1

I like Barack Obama.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Barack
Obama
Barack Obama
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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Community
Organizer
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I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Humanist
Revolutionary
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
Black Panther Party
Party
Revenge
Panther
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The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
Bobby Seale / Activist
African American
Leader
Luther
Dr
Martin Luther King
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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!
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People
Pollution
Revolution
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We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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Color
Hate
Oppression
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
Party
Revolutionary
Self
Self Defense
Panther
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You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Ethnic Groups
Groups
University
Ethnic
Exclude
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Good Friend
Officers
Philadelphia
Police
Good Friends
Police Officers
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We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
Facts
People
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
Panthers
Schemes
Raise
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Capitalist
Economic
Economic Power
Needs
Political
Power Society Political
Capital
Capitalist Society
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Best
Best Way
Brotherhood
Fighting
Racism
Solidarity
Way
You
Fight
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Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Bail
Jail
Prison
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Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Barbecue
Defeat
Related
Segregation
Closely
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If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
Party
Had
Malcolm
Panther
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I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Average
Barbecue
Capture
Conservative
Right Wing
Taste
Buds
Loves
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I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Legislation
Progression
Direction
Manifested
New Direction
Policies
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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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Firefighter
Hero
Moving
Police
Scared
Stand
Heroes
Move
Observe
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Black
College
Gang
Grew
Party
Young
College Campuses
Intelligentsia
Panther
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I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Fire
Perception
Political
Revolutionary
Perceptions
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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 / Activist
Hands
Long
People
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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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Ifs
Position
Violence
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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 / Activist
Crap
Hate
Idealistic
Make Things Happen
Mediums
Things Happen
Exchange
Medium
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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 / Activist
Done
People
Way
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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 / Activist
Black
Fbi
Party
People
Attacked
Black People Nothing
Entire
Generation
Panther
Young People
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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 for.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Barack
Black
Died
Panthers
Party
Obama
Barack Obama
Part
Dreamed
Electoral
Struggled
Panther
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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.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Clinic
Doctors
Donors
Programs
Panther
Service
Visited
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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 / Activist
Dream
Future
American Dream
Greater
Humanism
Legislation
Progressive
Thinking
World
American
Call
Necessary
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My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Engineering
Father
Views
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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.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Running
Railroads
Rights
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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.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Life Story
Party
Cameo
Lee
Malcolm
Panther
Spike
Spike Lee
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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 / Activist
Add
America
Architect
Barbecue
Carpenter
Jazz
Jazz Musician
Musician
Revolutionary
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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 / Activist
Cop
Heart
White
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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 / Activist
Cop
Heart
Isolationism
Person
Nothing
Being
Everyone
Beyond
Wrong
Got
Where
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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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Architect
Barbecue
Bartender
Carpenter
Comic
Thug
Me
Cook
Even
Stand-Up Comic
Tell
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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.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Fox News
Giving
News
People
Right Wing
Scare
Stance
Subtle
Wings
Me People Black
Articulate
Bobby
Calls
Me Black People
Conservatives
Fox
Black Me People
Platform
Tactic
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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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Lines
Revolution
Unity
Came
Coalition
Complete
Crossed
Working
Programs
Racial
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The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
Bobby Seale / Activist
America
Fbi
Hand In Hand
Party
Planning
Police
Program
States
United States
United States Of America
Attacks
Departments
Period
Literally
Offices
Panther
Throughout
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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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Black Community
Destiny
Determine
Dissertation
Long
Program
Straightforward
Writing
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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.
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Government
Average
Talking
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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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Imagination
Capture
Equalizer
Gun
Hands
People
Police
Since
Guns
Hand
Help
Observe
Took
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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.
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Men
America
Hands
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Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
Bobby Seale / Activist
Economic
Hands
Justice
Legislation
Political
Revolution
Social
Social Justice
Make
Back
Through
Human
Policies
Sense
Shootouts
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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 / Activist
Men
Exercise
Thinking
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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 / Activist
Ghetto
Party
Thinking
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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 / Activist
War
California
Party
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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 / Activist
Hippie
Pigs
Rights
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