This pamphlet collects quotes from dozens of revolutionaries, from Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party to Leslie Feinberg, pioneering LGBTQ revolutionary, to Lenin, Mao, Engels, and Marx. Their words have inspired millions to fight for a better world.
Fred Hampton (1948—1969)
“You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water […] We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism you’re afraid of yourself.”
“We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. […] We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
“If you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.”
“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.”
“We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletarian; I am the people.”
“We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Zedong, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.”
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