I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTONIf you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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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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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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