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I'm the Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton.

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And a lot of people don't understand the Black Panther Party's relationship with white mother

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country radicals.

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A lot of people don't even understand that word that they're using a lot.

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What we're saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for

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the same type of thing that we are for simulating revolution in the mother country.

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We've said that we'll work with anybody from coalitions, anybody that has revolution on

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their minds.

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We're not a racist organization because we understand that racism is an excuse used for

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capitalism.

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We know that racism is just a byproduct of capitalism.

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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people.

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And we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.

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Everybody in the state of Illinois is going to have to be involved or even around the

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revolution because we're going to have one.

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We're going to have to do more than talk.

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We're going to have to do more than listen.

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We're going to even have to do more than learn.

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We're going to have to start practicing and that's very hard.

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We've got to start learning and you learn through practice.

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We've got to start making mistakes and you learn through making mistakes.

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We've got to start getting out there with the people.

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And a lot of times we think we're better than the people but that's an insult and that's

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criminal.

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We think we're better than the people.

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We've got to get together and learn the way it's had.

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It's going to take a lot of hard work.

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Death Breaks for Children is something else you ought to dig on.

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All of you in this audience ought to get themselves together and come on down and help us with

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the Death Breaks for Children program.

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You ought to come down and help feed them children in the morning.

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We have breakfast for children because we teach the people through practice, through

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observation and participation that people can be made free.

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That people think socialism is the people.

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You're afraid of yourself.

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If you're afraid of socialism, you're afraid of yourself.

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We know they have our pictures.

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We know they're looking for us.

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We know they're harder.

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But we're still saying that even though we could be innocent, as far as this system goes,

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on the mouth of the talk, we in the Black Panther Party are because of our dedication

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and understanding of what's in the valley, knowing that the people are in the valley,

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knowing that we originally came from the valley, knowing that our flag is the same flag as

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the people in the valley, knowing that our enemy is on the mouth of the talk, our friends

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are in the valley, we say even though it's nice to be on the mouth of the talk, we're

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going back to the valley.

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I'd be in the hospital every day.

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I'd be in the streets propagandizing every day.

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I'd be working with everybody every day.

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I'd be teaching that solidarity is the thing.

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The end of a complete wipeout of imperialism is the thing.

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So if you're going to be thinking about me, that's what the body would be teaching.

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If you're going to be thinking about us, all we say is we don't, ain't no thing about

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going nowhere, getting killed.

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All we need is a way to get back to the people.

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I want to know if you're doing what we'd be doing if we were here.

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And you've got to do that.

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You can't do it unless you believe that you can do it.

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In the spirit of liberation, we understand that they want everybody in the party in jail.

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And we know that if we try to figure out and separate and divide who should go and who

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shouldn't go, we'd spend more time doing that than working for the people.

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So the quick solution is speedy one.

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Nobody goes.

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Nobody goes.

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We all stay right here with the people because we love the people.

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Okay, you can put your hands down now.

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We say all power to all people.

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We say white power to white people.

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Brown power to brown people.

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Yellow power to yellow people.

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Black power to black people.

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X power to those that we left out.

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X power to those that we left out.

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We say power to the Vanguard party.

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When you leave here saying the last words, before you go to bed and say I am a revolutionary,

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make that the last word.

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In case you don't wake up, then somebody might believe it and you might end up in what

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they call a revolutionary happy hunting ground.

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Say that, I am a revolutionary.

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I am a revolutionary.

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Say it when you're going out.

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Hey man, I'm going to leave you to leave.

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Okay, we're going to say it while we're going out.

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Hey, we're going to start a thing called Free Fred.

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Don't that sound nice?

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Hey, let's do that.

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Free Fred.

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Free Fred.

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Free Fred.

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Hey, I ain't even in jail yet.