Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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