Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

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

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

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

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.