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

- Bobby Seale

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

- Bobby Seale

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

- Bobby Seale

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

- Bobby Seale

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

- Bobby Seale

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.

- Bobby Seale

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

- Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

- Bobby Seale

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Bobby Seale

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

- Bobby Seale

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

- Bobby Seale

I like Barack Obama.

- 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

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.

- Bobby Seale