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
writing destiny giving
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.
fire political perception
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
party ghetto thinking
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.
people done way
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.
political needs economic
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
hippie rights pigs
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.
people black facts
We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
exercise men thinking
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.
hands long people
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.
hate color oppression
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
violence position ifs
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.
fighting racism brotherhood
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
heart white cop
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.
men hands america
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.