You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
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.
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You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
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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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
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I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
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