Bobby Seale Quotes

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

People power. It has no limits.

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.