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

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

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

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

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

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.