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.
FRED HAMPTONYou 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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’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 don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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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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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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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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