You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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