You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
FRED HAMPTONA revolution is a class struggle.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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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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’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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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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 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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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.
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