We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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 don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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 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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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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 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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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