The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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 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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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