Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
FRED HAMPTONYou can’t build a revolution with no education.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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