Quotes by Bobby Seale

About Bobby Seale:

Robert George "Bobby" Seale is an American political activist. With Huey Newton he co-founded the Black Panther Party.
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

Bobby Seale

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Bobby Seale

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Bobby Seale

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.

Bobby Seale

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

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Bobby Seale

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

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.

Bobby Seale

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Bobby Seale

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

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

Bobby Seale

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

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

Bobby Seale

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Bobby Seale

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

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

Bobby Seale

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.

Bobby Seale

Author Bio

  • NameBobby Seale
  • DescriptionAmerican activist
  • BornOctober 22, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitical Activist