You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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 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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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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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