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.
FRED HAMPTONA 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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