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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.”
― Fred Hampton, I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. 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. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

“If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life”
― Fred Hampton

“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.”
― Fred Hampton

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
― Fred Hampton

“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution.

You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.

You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.

And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude

And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and instead moving on pigs.”
― Fred Hampton

“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.”
― Fred Hampton

“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, because the people that we're asking for peace, they're a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don't even understand what peace means.”
― Fred Hampton

“Racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism.”
― Fred Hampton

“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 Hampton

“First you have free breakfasts, then you have free medical care, then you have free bus rides, and soon you have FREEDOM!”
― Fred Hampton

“Racism is an excuse used for capitalism.”
― Fred Hampton

“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.”
― Fred Hampton

“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.”
― Fred Hampton