You can’t build a revolution with no education.
FRED HAMPTONYou can’t build a revolution with no education.
FRED HAMPTONNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTONWe 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.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONWe understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
FRED HAMPTONEverything 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.
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.
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.
FRED HAMPTONA revolution is a class struggle.
FRED HAMPTONWe have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
FRED HAMPTONNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTONI 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.
FRED HAMPTONIf you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTONWe’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 HAMPTONYou have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTONA 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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