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 HAMPTONWith no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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