Fred Hampton Quotes

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If you ever think about me, and if you think about me niggers, and if you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind, if you're not gonna work for the people. Like we always said, if you're asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty and you say I don't want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I'm too young to die, I wanna live a little bit longer—what you did is, you're dead already.

Fred Hampton
We don't think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. We're stood up and said we're not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state's attorneys like this and reactionary state's attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We're going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.

Fred Hampton
You have to understand that people have to pay the price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not to struggle then god damn it, you don't deserve to win. Let me say peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Fred Hampton
So we say—we always say in the Black Panther Party that they can do anything they want to to us. 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. I am not the pigs. You've got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers are doing here. That's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Fred Hampton
Why don't you live for the people. Why don't you struggle for the people. Why don't you die for the people.

Fred Hampton
You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

Fred Hampton