Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
FRED HAMPTONIf you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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 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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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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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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