Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTONEverything 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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 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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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 do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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