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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.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton 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.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton People have to be armed to have power, you see.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton Power anywhere where there’s people!
Fred HamptonFred Hampton We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
Fred HamptonFred Hampton If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton 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 HamptonFred Hampton If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
Fred HamptonFred Hampton You can’t build a revolution with no education.
Fred HamptonFred Hampton
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.
LordeLorde Be proud of your people when you don’t have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
Prince PhilipPrince Philip If there’s going to be class war in this country it’s time the working class won that war.
Bernie SandersBernie Sanders As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
Bell HooksBell Hooks Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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