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.
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.
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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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