Bobby Seale Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

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.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

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

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

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.