More - Bobby Seale Quotes

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

Bobby Seale

 American Activist Racism

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. . . . the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

Bobby Seale

 People

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.

Bobby Seale

 

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

Bobby Seale

 Hate

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.

Bobby Seale

 Money

Seize the Time.

Bobby Seale

 

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

Bobby Seale

 American Activist Hero

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

 American Activist Revolution

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.

Bobby Seale

 

We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. That's not true.

Bobby Seale