We didn't care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where your heart was.
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We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression.Bobby Seale
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
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
You can jail a revolutionary, but you cannot jail the revolution.
Bobby Seale
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
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.
Bobby Seale
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