Quotes from Bobby Seale

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

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

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

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

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

I like Barack Obama.

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

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

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

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.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

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.

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

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

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.

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.

Huey was something else. Huey was out of sight. He knew how to do it. Huey was ten motherfuckers.

The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary political organization. Although its members were leaders of the Black Power movement, they were not black nationalists. Their "black pride" was not based on denigrating whites, but on showing the black community how to take control of its own destiny. The Black Panther Party worked for economic justice and power for all people. Bobby