If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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.
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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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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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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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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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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 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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
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