We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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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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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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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 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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