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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.

Fred Hampton

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
FRED HAMPTON

Education Learning
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTON

Country People Radical Relationship Understand
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Breakfast Children Community Hand Kids Program Social
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
FRED HAMPTON

Jail Kill Liberty Revolution
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
FRED HAMPTON

Civil Jail Revolution
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 HAMPTON

Against Attack Distinction Panther People Pig World
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
FRED HAMPTON

Mind Revolution Work
If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
FRED HAMPTON

Help Life Walk
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Capital Excuse Organization Racism Understand
The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
FRED HAMPTON

Bunch Peace People Understand
I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
FRED HAMPTON

Die Ice One Liner Slip
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Flow Gun Politics Power
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
FRED HAMPTON

Country Produce Respect Thinking
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
FRED HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Capital Fight Racism Social Solidarity
A revolution is a class struggle.
FRED HAMPTON

Class Revolution Struggle

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