You can’t build a revolution with no education.
FRED HAMPTONI 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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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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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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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 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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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