In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 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.
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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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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 don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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