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.
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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
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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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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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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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