People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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