People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONA lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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 am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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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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