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.
FRED HAMPTONBlack 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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 do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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 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 don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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