Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTONWe’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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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.
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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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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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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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