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We 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.

Fred Hampton

If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
FRED HAMPTON

Help Life Walk
We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

Coward Panther Pig Shoot Threat
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
A revolution is a class struggle.
FRED HAMPTON

Class Revolution Struggle
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Breakfast Change Charity Children People Program Revolution
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Fight Peace People Struggle White
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
FRED HAMPTON

Fight Peace Willing
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTON

Facism Important Stop
You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
FRED HAMPTON

Government Kill Revolution
Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
FRED HAMPTON

Afraid People Social Yourself
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Deal Ideal Material Reality
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Against Attack Distinction Panther People Pig World
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 HAMPTON

Die Live People Struggle
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTON

People Power See
They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTON

Buy Candy Eat Sarcastic Throw Wrapper
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
FRED HAMPTON

Country Produce Respect Thinking

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