You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTONA lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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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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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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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 do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 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’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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 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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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