We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
FRED HAMPTONYou can’t build a revolution with no education.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 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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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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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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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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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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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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