I was born in a bourgeois community and had some of the better things in life, but I found that there were more people starving than there were people eating, more people that didn’t have clothes than did have clothes, and I just happened to be one of the few. So I decided that I wouldn’t stop doing what I’m doing until all those people are free. Read more amazing quotes and captions by Fred Hampton and feel free to share on Instagram and Twitter.
19 Fred Hampton quotes
Everything 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.
And how do they fool you? Because they pick the leaders they want. And they put those people up there and portray them as being your leaders when, in fact, they’re leaders of nobody.
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. – Fred Hampton quotes
We know that political power doesn’t flow from the sleeve of a dashiki. We know that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
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’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 have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
I’m telling you that we’re living in an infectious society right now. I’m telling you that we’re living in a sick society. And anybody that endorses integrating into this sick society before it’s cleaned up is a man who’s committing a crime against the people. – Fred Hampton quotes
Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements. The only thing that’s gonna change our set of arrangements is what’s gotten us into this set of arrangements. And that’s the oppressor.
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F Hampton sayings
In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.
I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.
Power anywhere where there’s people!
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.
Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself. – Fred Hampton quotes
Don’t worry about the Black Panther Party. As long as you keep the beat, we’ll keep on going.