When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to … - Bobby Seale

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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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Bobby Seale (born 22 October 1936, in Liberty, Texas) is an American civil rights activist, who along with Huey Newton, co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense in 1966.

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Alternative Names: Robert George Seale

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