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 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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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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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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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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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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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 understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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