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“I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.”

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Book:United States of America, plaintiff-appellee, v. Bobby G. Seale, defendant-appellant: appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ...
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“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.”

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Author:Bobby Seale
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“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.”

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Book:Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
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