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 HAMPTONThe people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
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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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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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.
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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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