A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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 afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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