We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
FRED HAMPTONWhy don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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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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 don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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 do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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