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 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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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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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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Power anywhere where there’s 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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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