I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
FRED HAMPTONYou 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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 kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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’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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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