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.
FRED HAMPTONWe don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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 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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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