If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
FRED HAMPTONThe people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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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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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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