A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTONI 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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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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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 revolution is a class struggle.
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