I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
FRED HAMPTONWith no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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 kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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