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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.

Fred Hampton

A revolution is a class struggle.
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Class Revolution Struggle
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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Knee Learning Listen People Prison
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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Against Attack Distinction Panther People Pig World
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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Country People Radical Relationship Understand
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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Die Live People Struggle
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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People Power See
You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Government Kill Revolution
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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Alright People Racism Togetherness
Power anywhere where there’s people!
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One Liner People Power
I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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Die Ice One Liner Slip
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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Face Fight Fire People Racism Solidarity
You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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Build Education Revolution
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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Bunch Peace People Understand
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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Mind Revolution Work
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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Deal Ideal Material Reality
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Fascism Important Stop
In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Langyage Racism
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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Act Forget Mind Myself People Revolution Thinking Want Work
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Dare Motivational One Liner Struggle Win
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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Coward Panther Pig Shoot Threat
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Fascism Fight Fire Inspirational Racism Water
We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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Adventure Opportunity People Support
I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Afraid Courage Pig War
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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Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
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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Jail Kill Liberty Revolution
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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Culture Exception Freedom Need Revolution
The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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People Power See

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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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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