People have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONPeople have to be armed to have power, you see.
FRED HAMPTONPower anywhere where there’s people!
FRED HAMPTONYou don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTONYou can’t build a revolution with no education.
FRED HAMPTONWhy don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTONWe understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
FRED HAMPTONThey talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTONWe’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
FRED HAMPTONThe people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.
FRED HAMPTONI am the people, I’m not the pig. You 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 is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
FRED HAMPTONWe say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
FRED HAMPTONWe’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
FRED HAMPTONIf you ever think about me, and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people.
FRED HAMPTONI don”t know if I like communism, and I don”t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program.
FRED HAMPTONI believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
FRED HAMPTON