Fred Hampton Quotes

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

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This quote uses figurative language to express a personal conflict or animosity towards a particular group or entity, referring to them as "pigs." It implies a confrontational or rebellious stance against perceived oppression or injustice.

A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

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.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing t... -Fred Hampton

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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This quote acknowledges that attaining peace may require effort, resilience, and determination. It implies that peace is a valuable and worthwhile pursuit that may necessitate overcoming obstacles and actively engaging in the necessary actions and advocacy to achieve it.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

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.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.

Fred Hampton Quotes

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