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Bobby Seale Quotes

born 1936 United States

Bobby Seale (born 22 October 1936, in Liberty, Texas) is an American civil rights activist, who along with Huey Newton, co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense in 1966.

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The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

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.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bobby Seale (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.