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.
FRED HAMPTONWith no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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 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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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for 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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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 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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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