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.
FRED HAMPTONDon’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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