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 HAMPTONWe 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’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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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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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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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