If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
FRED HAMPTONYou 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 jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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 don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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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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We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for 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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