They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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’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.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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