4610 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists. Bobby Seale

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

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

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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. Bobby Seale

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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

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

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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

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons. Bruce Kent

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Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved. Bryan Stevenson

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It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic. Bryan Stevenson

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I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson

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Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank. Bryan Stevenson

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done. Bryan Stevenson

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If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable. Bryan Stevenson

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It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. Bryan Stevenson

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If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor. Bryan Stevenson

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When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me. Bryan Stevenson

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When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do. Bryan Stevenson

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I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same. Bryan Stevenson

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