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 HAMPTONYou have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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