We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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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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We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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