The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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’t build a revolution with no education.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
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