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.
FRED HAMPTONWe 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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