Fred Hampton famous quotes

05-25-2025

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.
-- Fred Hampton

#Fighting #Fire #Racism
I 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

#Believe #Struggle #People
You donâ€™t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. Weâ€™re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. Weâ€™re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If youâ€™re afraid of socialism, youâ€™re afraid of yourself.
-- Fred Hampton

#Fighting #Fire #Racism
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.
-- Fred Hampton

#Struggle #Winning #Dare
I 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 Hampton

#Pigs #People #Panthers
I 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 Hampton

#Children #Kids #Hands
We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
-- Fred Hampton

#Running #Fighting #Pigs
You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.
-- Fred Hampton

#Jail #Revolution #Revolutionary
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.
-- Fred Hampton

#Party #Home #Simple
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.
-- Fred Hampton

#Pigs #People #Proletariat
In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.
-- Fred Hampton

#Two #Language #Tango
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
-- Fred Hampton

#War #Bloodshed #Understood
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
-- Fred Hampton

#Mother #Country #Party
Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but were going to fight it with socialism.
-- Fred Hampton

#Fighting #Racism #Black
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
-- Fred Hampton

#Struggle #Winning #Dare
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
-- Fred Hampton

#Fighting #Let Me #Willing

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