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 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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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 revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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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 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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the 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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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