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  • A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

    Mother   Country   Party  
  • We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

  • You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

  • We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. 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. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

    Fighting   Fire   Talking  
  • You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

  • 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.

    Pigs   People   Panthers  
  • The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

    People  
    "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.
  • 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 . . .

    Children   Kids   Hands  
  • Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

    Party   Home   Simple  
  • 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.

    Fighting   Fire   Racism  
  • If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

    Struggle   Winning   Dare  
    YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.
  • 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.

  • If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

    Struggle   Winning   Dare  
    YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.
  • In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

    Two   Language   Tango  
  • We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

    Running   Fighting   Pigs  
    "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.
  • You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

  • I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.

    Ice   Slipping   Dies  
  • Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

  • 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.

    Fighting   Racism   Black  
    YouTube Channel "Mas Sergio"/"Fred Hampton - 'Political Prisoner'", www.youtube.com. January 06, 2013.
  • 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.

    Fighting   Fire   Racism  
    "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.
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Fred Hampton

  • Born: August 30, 1948
  • Died: December 4, 1969
  • Occupation: Activist