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 HAMPTONWhy don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to 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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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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.
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