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.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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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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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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