Explore Quotes by Bobby Seale

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.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

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.

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

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

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

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.

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.

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.

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

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

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

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