Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTONWe 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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 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 don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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 walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
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