Bobby seale

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

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

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

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.

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

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 Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

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

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 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...