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.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for 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 jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
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