You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
FRED HAMPTONWe said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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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.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism.
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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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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.
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