Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
FRED HAMPTONThe people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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 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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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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