Power anywhere where there’s people!
FRED HAMPTONEverything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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