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.
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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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 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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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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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