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.
FRED HAMPTONWe have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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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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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to 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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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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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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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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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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