People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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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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.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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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 have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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