Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTONWe’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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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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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