You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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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.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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