You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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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’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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 can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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