We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
FRED HAMPTONWe say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.
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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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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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