Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
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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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
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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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I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
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If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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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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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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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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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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If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life
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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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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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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Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
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