"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."

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Source : "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

Bobby Seale

#Violence Quotes #Position Quotes

“Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary”
“I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don't try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show.”
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.”
“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.”
“Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.”
“After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.”
“After you have the basics down it's all mental.”

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