We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
FRED HAMPTONIf you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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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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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 miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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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 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 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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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
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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 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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