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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.

~Bobby Seale

Topics: About Being Beyond Cop Everyone Get Got Heart Isolationism Nothing Person Where White Wrong Your

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Black College Gang Grew Out Panther Party Young

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Average Barbecue Buds Capture Conservative Loves Right-Wing Taste Think Who I Think I Can

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Barbecue Being Closely Defeat Helped Part Related Segregation South

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Been Black Had Malcolm Malcolm X Never Panther Party Would

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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.

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Capture Equalizer Guns Hand Help Imagination Important Knew Know More Observe Our People Police Since Took Us Were Without You

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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.

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Articulate Black Bobby Calls Conservatives Fox Fox News Giving Me Never New News Opposition People Platform Right-Wing Scare Stance Subtle Tactic Up

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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

Topics: Because Came Coalition Complete Crossed Down Had Lines People Programs Racial Real Revolution Unity Us Where Working

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Heroes Like Move Observe Police Scared Stand Us Were

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

~Bobby Seale

Topics: Change Fire Me Never Out Perceptions Political Revolutionary Still

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 22nd, 1936

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