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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.

Fred Hampton

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 HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Capital Fight Racism Social Solidarity
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTON

Country People Radical Relationship Understand
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Fight Peace People Struggle White
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
FRED HAMPTON

Afraid People Social Yourself
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTON

Country People Radical Relationship Understand
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
FRED HAMPTON

Country Produce Respect Thinking
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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Coward Panther Pig Shoot Threat
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Deal Ideal Material Reality
They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTON

Buy Candy Eat Sarcastic Throw Wrapper
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Capital Excuse Organization Racism Understand
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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Blood Politics Understand
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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Act Forget Mind Myself People Revolution Thinking Want Work
I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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Die Ice One Liner Slip
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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Against Attack Distinction Panther People Pig World
Power anywhere where there’s people!
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One Liner People Power
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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Alright People Racism Togetherness
Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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Die Live People Struggle
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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Breakfast Children Community Hand Kids Program Social
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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Mind Revolution Work
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Dare Motivational One Liner Struggle Win
A revolution is a class struggle.
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Class Revolution Struggle
We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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Flow Gun Politics Power
If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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Help Life Walk
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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Learning Mistake Practice Start
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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Knee Learning Listen People Prison
Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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Beat.Going Black Fassicm Party Worry

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