People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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