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 HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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 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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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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