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.
FRED HAMPTONThey talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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’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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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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