Bobby Seale

“The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.”

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

“The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups.”

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