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.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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 cannot kill a revolution.
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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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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you 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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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