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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.

Fred Hampton

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
FRED HAMPTON

Arrangement Black Lives Matter Change Name
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTON

Dare Pay Peace People Price Struggle Understand Win
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
FRED HAMPTON

Blood Politics Understand
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Breakfast Change Charity Children People Program Revolution
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
FRED HAMPTON

Black Lives Matter Capital Fight Racism Social Solidarity
You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTON

Deep Dry Hope Inspirational Water Well
Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.
FRED HAMPTON

Afraid People Social Yourself
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
FRED HAMPTON

Mind Revolution Work
In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTON

Langyage Racism
They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTON

Buy Candy Eat Sarcastic Throw Wrapper
We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTON

Coward Panther Pig Shoot Threat
The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
FRED HAMPTON

People Power See
The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
FRED HAMPTON

Bunch Peace People Understand
We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
FRED HAMPTON

Capital Excuse Organization Racism Understand
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Hand People
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Flow Gun Politics Power

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’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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