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.
FRED HAMPTONSocialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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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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We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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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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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 say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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