We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTONYou can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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 don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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