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.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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 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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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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