In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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 revolution is a class struggle.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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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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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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