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.
FRED HAMPTONWe’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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’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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