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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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 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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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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’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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