I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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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.
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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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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’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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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