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 HAMPTONA lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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 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’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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