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.
FRED HAMPTONYou have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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