Bobby Seale Quotes

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

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.

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.

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.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

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.

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.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

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.

We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!