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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

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
FRED HAMPTON

Education Learning
We say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
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Existence Fascisn Non Violence Question Resistance Violence
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.
FRED HAMPTON

Deal Ideal Material Reality
You can’t build a revolution with no education.
FRED HAMPTON

Build Education Revolution
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
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Dare Motivational One Liner Struggle Win
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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Knee Learning Listen People Prison
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.
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Capital Excuse Organization Racism Understand
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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Blood Politics Understand
A revolution is a class struggle.
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Class Revolution Struggle
The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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People Power See
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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Fight Peace Willing
Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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Beat.Going Black Fassicm Party Worry
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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Country People Radical Relationship Understand
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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Mind Revolution Work
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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Country Produce Respect Thinking

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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