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.
FRED HAMPTONWe say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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 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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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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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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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