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.
FRED HAMPTONI 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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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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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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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
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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 kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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