I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTONI’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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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’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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