A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
FRED HAMPTONWe understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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 have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
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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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You can’t build a revolution with no education.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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