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.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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