Bobby Seale Quotes

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer. ~ Bobby Seale

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

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. ~ Bobby Seale

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights. ~ Bobby Seale

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

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. ~ Fred Hampton

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

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

I like Barack Obama. ~ Bobby Seale

You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups. ~ Bobby Seale

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. ~ Bobby Seale

All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers. ~ Bobby Seale

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

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

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary. ~ 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

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

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life. ~ Gil Scott-Heron

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

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why. ~ Bobby Seale

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. ~ Bobby Seale

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

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

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves. ~ Bobby Seale

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

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. ~ Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists. ~ Bobby Seale

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. ~ Bobby Seale

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution! ~ Bobby Seale

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

But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language. ~ 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

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

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. ~ Bobby Fischer

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important. ~ Bobby Robson

May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family. ~ Bobby Rush

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. ~ Bobby McFerrin

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court. ~ Bobby Knight

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. ~ Bobby Schilling

You are never too old to play chess! ~ Bobby Fischer

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: I was watching an old western and started thinking the Good, the Bad and the Ugly are present in all of us. What determines which one dominates is the one that is fed. Which one are you feeding? ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart. ~ Bobby Jindal

And then she started crying, tears which crawled slowly, silently down her cheeks, as though pain had finally found an avenue of escape. ~ Bobby Underwood

Every time someone takes a sip of Guinness, a part of straight marriage dies, ~ Bobby Jindal

Sometimes life appears one way, but what matters is how you internalize life and its lessons. ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I'd never had to kill anyone. Maybe I still hadn't. What I'd killed wasn't human, but I had learned something very valuable. Whoever they were, wherever they were from, and whatever they wanted here in Nautica City, they were not immortal. They could die, just like we could. ~ Bobby Underwood

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan. ~ Bobby Moynihan

White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this assumption - which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt white standards - is revealed in all kinds of striking ways, from Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in forty years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals. ~ James Baldwin

Way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man ~ Justin Cronin

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist! ~ Bobby Jindal

Depending on whether you were a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort it was either very late at night or the wee hours of morning as I cast my line into the aquamarine waters of Cozumel and saw her head sticking up out of the low tide about twenty yards to my left. ~ Bobby Underwood

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. ~ Bobby McFerrin

Our scars remind us, that the past is real. ~ Bobby Marshall

Honey, have you seen my measuring tape?"
"I think it's in that drawer in the kitchen with the scissors, matches, bobby pins, Scotch tape, nail clippers, barbecue tongs, garlic press, extra buttons, old birthday cards, soy sauce packets thick rubber bands, stack of Christmas napkins, stained take-out menus, old cell-phone chargers, instruction booklet for the VCR, some assorted nickels, an incomplete deck of cards, extra chain links for a watch, a half-finished pack of cough drops, a Scrabble piece I found while vacuuming, dead batteries we aren't fully sure are dead yet, a couple screws in a tiny plastic bag left over from the bookshelf, that lock with the forgotten combination, a square of carefully folded aluminum foil, and expired pack of gum, a key to our old house, a toaster warranty card, phone numbers for unknown people, used birthday candles, novelty bottle openers, a barbecue lighter, and that one tiny little spoon."
"Thanks, honey."
AWESOME! ~ Neil Pasricha

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose. ~ Bobby Jindal

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success. ~ Bobby Jones

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. ~ Bobby Fischer

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. ~ Bobby Flay

Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor. ~ Ellen Burstyn

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else. ~ Bobby Bowden

I am right where I want to be-in the playoffs, and happy about it. ~ Bobby Abreu

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach. ~ Bobby Orr

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills. ~ Grantland Rice

Real happiness comes from a deeper place, not from anything external. The freshest and best water flows from the deepest, darkest chasms of the mountain. Likewise, true happiness flows from the hidden places of the human heart. ~ Bobby Schuller

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create. ~ Bobby Orr