Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale
Robert George "Bobby" Sealeis an American political activist. He and Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth22 October 1936
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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We didn't care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where your heart was.
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You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.
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The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
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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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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.
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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.
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If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
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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.
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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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Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
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I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
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Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.