In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTONWe say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare 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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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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.
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