If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
FRED HAMPTONChanging your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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 metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
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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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