The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
FRED HAMPTONYou can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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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 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’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 going to die slipping on no ice.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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 don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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