Power anywhere where there’s 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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I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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’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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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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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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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