Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTONWe’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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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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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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 kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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 walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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