Bobby Seale Quotes

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Bobby Seale

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 22, 1936

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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