If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTONI 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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 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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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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.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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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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