Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you 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.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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.
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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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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You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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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 said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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 say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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’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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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