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 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 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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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