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.
FRED HAMPTONNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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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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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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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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A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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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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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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I don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
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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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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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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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A revolution is a class struggle.
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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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You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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People have to be armed to have power, you see.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.
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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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