A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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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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 cannot kill a revolution.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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