We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to 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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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