If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
FRED HAMPTONWe’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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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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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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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
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We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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 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’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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