People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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’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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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