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
FRED HAMPTONThe people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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 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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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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