Progressive Politics

Fred Hampton Speech: "Why don't you die for the people" [02:27 | AUG 28 2010 | jerbo414 | https://youtu.be/_7F8RfnDhkA]

Transcript:

1. If you ever think about me,
2. and if you think about me [removed]s,
3. and if you ain't gonna do
4. no revolutionary act
5. forget about me.
7. I don't want myself on your mind
8. If your not going to work for the people.
10. Like we always said,
11. If you're asked to make a commitment
12. at the age of twenty,
13. and you say,
14. "I don't want to make a commitment",
15. Only Because of the simple reason that,
16. "I'm too young to die",
17. "I want to live a little bit longer"...
18. What you did is,... you're dead already.
20. You have to understand,
21. That people have to pay
22. the price for peace.
24. If you dare to struggle,
25. you dare to win.
27. If you dare not struggle, then
28. god damn-it, you don't deserve to win.
30. Let me say peace to you.
31. If you're willing to fight for it.
33. Let me say in the spirit of liberation...
34. I've been gone for a little while.
35. At least my body's been gone
36. for a little while.
37. But I'm back now.
38. And I believe that I'm back to stay.
40. I believe that I'm going to do my job.
41. And I believe that I was born,
42. not to die in a car wreck;
44. I don't believe that I'm going to die
45. in a car wreck.
47. I don't believe I'm going to die
48. slipping on a piece of ice;
50. I don't believe I'm going to die
51. because I got a bad heart;
53. I don't believe I'm going to die
54. because of lung cancer.
56. I believe that I'm going to be able to
57. die doing the things I was born for.
59. I believe that I'm going to be able
60. to die high off the people.
62. I believe that I will be able to die
63. as a revolutionary in the
64. international revolutionary
65. proletarian struggle
67. and I hope that each one of you will
68. be able to die in the international
69. proletarian revolutionary struggle
70. or you'll be able to live in it.
71. And I think that struggle's
72. going to come.
74. Why don't you live for the people.
75. Why don't you struggle for the people.
77. Why don't you die for the people.