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.
FRED HAMPTONI have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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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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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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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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.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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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 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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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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