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Fred Hampton: You can jail revolutionaries, but you can't jail a revolution. Right. 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 fightin'. And if you do, you come up with answers that don't answer, explanations that don't explain, you come up with conclusions that don't conclude
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that you can jail
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the revolutionary
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but you can't jail The revolution
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Right
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You might run a liberator Like Eldridge Cleaver
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out the country but you can't
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run liberation out the country
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You might murder a freedom
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fighter like Bobby Hutton
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but you can't Murder freedom fightin'
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and if you do You'll come up with answers
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that don't answer
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information that don't explain
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You come up with conclusions That don't conclude
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Movie Summary
A chronicle of Fred Hampton's revolutionary leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party, followed by an investigation into his assassination at the hands of the Chicago Police Department.