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.
FRED HAMPTONYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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