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 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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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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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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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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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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