We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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 revolution is a class struggle.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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