A revolution is a class struggle.
FRED HAMPTONA revolution is a class struggle.
FRED HAMPTONWe said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTONChanging your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.
FRED HAMPTONYou can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.
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 HAMPTONYou don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.
FRED HAMPTONThe people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
FRED HAMPTONIf you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.
FRED HAMPTONWe say it’s no longer a question of violence or non-violence. We say it’s a question of resistance to fascism or non-existence within fascism.
FRED HAMPTONI went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
FRED HAMPTONThey talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.
FRED HAMPTONYou don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.
FRED HAMPTONWe said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.
FRED HAMPTONEverything 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.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTONIn plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
FRED HAMPTON