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

Bobby Seale

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Bobby Seale
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: October 22
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Dallas
Texas
Robert George Seale
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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.
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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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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.
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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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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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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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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!
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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.
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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 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.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
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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.
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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.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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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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