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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

They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTON

Buy Candy Eat Sarcastic Throw Wrapper
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Face Fight Fire People Racism Solidarity
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
In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTON

Langyage Racism
Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
FRED HAMPTON

Arrangement Black Lives Matter Change Name
The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
FRED HAMPTON

People Power See
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 dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTON

Dare Motivational One Liner Struggle Win
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
FRED HAMPTON

Civil Jail Revolution
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

Knee Learning Listen People Prison
In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTON

Langyage Racism
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
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
We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
FRED HAMPTON

Culture Exception Freedom Need Revolution
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
We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
FRED HAMPTON

Adventure Opportunity People Support
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
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 HAMPTON

Deal Ideal Material Reality
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Alright People Racism Togetherness
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
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Act Forget Mind Myself People Revolution Thinking Want Work
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTON

People Power See
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTON

Fascism Important Stop
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
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
FRED HAMPTON

Facism Important Stop
Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTON

Die Live People Struggle

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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