A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
Fred HamptonRead
We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that the core of revolutionary movements is the struggle between different social classes.
Fred Hampton highlights the fundamental belief shared by revolutionary figures like Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara, and Mao Tse-Tung, that the essence of a revolution lies in class struggle. This underscores the notion that societal change is driven primarily by conflicts arising from economic and social inequalities between classes, rather than other factors.
Themes
Class StruggleRevolutionSocial ChangeMarxismOppression
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about social justice, one might cite this quote to emphasize the need for awareness of class issues.
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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 proletariat; I am the people.
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Everything 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.
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The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
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