The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Bobby Seale: Self

Quotes 

• Bobby Seale : You know what we are gonna do? We are going to defend ourselves. Because Huey P. Newton says that power - power is the ability to define phenomena and make it act in a designed manner. Power is the ability - to define phenomena - and make it act in a designed manner. What kind of phenomena? Social phenomena! What is a social phenomena? Black people, Mexican Americans, any kind of people, begins to learn that the social phenomena is that, in fact, U.S., racist, decadent, capitalist, imperialist America is a police state. And a police state exists here and that these pigs are doing nothing but protecting the average businessman and the demogoging politicians, protecting the exploiting system they got going. That, in fact, we are tire of it, we are sick of it. You've been brutalizing black people. You've been murdering and lynching us. Black people are tired of it!

• Bobby Seale : The revolution, so created by the people. We stand together. We'll have a black army, a Mexican American army, an alliance and solidarity for arresting whites. All of us. We're going to march pig power country. We're going to say, "Stick 'em up, muthafucker. We come for what's ours..." Power to the people.

• Bobby Seale : Black people are the vanguard of the revolution.

• Bobby Seale : The only next thing to do is get organized. Get organized! So, when a pig walks up to you or a pig jive with the people, you'll be so organized, you'll be learning some tactics, you'll be learning some revolutionary principals, you be having some guns to be out somewhere, you have some proper tactics - that when the pig get to jivin' wit' you - the pig is wrong - you whoop your guns out on him - blow him away - and then you have the ability, in fact you have made that pig act in a desired manner. But for what? But for what? For a new system, brother. We need a new system. The people need a new system.

• Bobby Seale : There are white people in the mother country that are for the same things we are for: stimulating revolution in the mother country. And we've said we'll work with anybody, will be in coalition with anybody that has revolutions on their minds.

• Bobby Seale : We're not a racist organization, because, we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism. If we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism.

• Bobby Seale : Socialism is the people. You're afraid of yourself. If you're afraid of socialism, your afraid of yourself.

• Bobby Seale : Everything would be all right if everything was put back into the hands of the people. And we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.