We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve 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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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.
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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 don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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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Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we’re gonna have to fight, we’re gonna have to struggle, we’re gonna have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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