People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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