You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
FRED HAMPTONI 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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