You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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