People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONEverything 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.
More Fred Hampton Quotes
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Power anywhere where there’s people!
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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 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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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 don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.
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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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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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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
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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 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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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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’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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