A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTONWe said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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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.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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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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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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