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.
FRED HAMPTONNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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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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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 walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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