Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
FRED HAMPTONBlack 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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 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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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 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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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