We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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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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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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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 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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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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