We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
FRED HAMPTONIf you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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