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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life

Fred Hampton

We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
FRED HAMPTON

Learning Mistake Practice Start
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Breakfast Change Charity Children People Program Revolution
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 HAMPTON

Knee Learning Listen People Prison
You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTON

Deep Dry Hope Inspirational Water Well
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Capital Excuse Organization Racism Understand
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTON

Country People Radical Relationship Understand
I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

Afraid Courage Pig War
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTON

Fascism Important Stop
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
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 HAMPTON

Face Fight Fire People Racism Solidarity
Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
FRED HAMPTON

Afraid People Social Yourself
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
FRED HAMPTON

Education Learning
We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

Coward Panther Pig Shoot Threat
They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTON

Buy Candy Eat Sarcastic Throw Wrapper
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Act Forget Mind Myself People Revolution Thinking Want Work
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Believe Born Die Fascism International People Revolution Struggle

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