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.
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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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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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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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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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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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