Words matter. These are the best Bobby Seale Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
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.
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.
The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
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.
I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.
