You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
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.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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.
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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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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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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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