Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
FRED HAMPTONIf you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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 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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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