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.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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