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.
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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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 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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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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