You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTONThey talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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 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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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