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.
FRED HAMPTONChanging your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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