Bobby Seale Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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