The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution! Bobby Seale More Quotes by Bobby Seale More Quotes From Bobby Seale 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. Bobby Seale men hands america You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. Bobby Seale brotherhood fighting racism 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 cop white heart 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. Bobby Seale position violence ifs We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression! Bobby Seale oppression color hate We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that? Bobby Seale black facts people 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 black party people To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. Bobby Seale economic political needs A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. Bobby Seale long hands people 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 hippie rights pigs 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. Bobby Seale gun hands people 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 exercise men thinking 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 dream world thinking 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 done people way I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change. Bobby Seale political perception fire 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. Bobby Seale government average talking 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 ghetto party thinking 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. Bobby Seale destiny writing long The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party. Bobby Seale black party self 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 musician add america
