The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
FRED HAMPTONYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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 kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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