Fred Hampton Quotes | Fred Hampton was born on 30 August 1948 in Argo. He spent his childhood in Maywood. He was a American civil rights leader and deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter formed the city of Chicago’s first “Rainbow Coalition.
He completed his studies in two schools, Irving Elementary School and Proviso East High School. During college, Fred Hampton did many different jobs so that he could pay his college fees.
What made him famous?
He was a American civil rights leader and deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter formed the city of Chicago’s first “Rainbow Coalition.
He organized rallies, established a Free Breakfast program, and negotiated a peace pact among rival gangs. As a rising leader in the BPP, Hampton became the focus of an FBI investigation.
He also faced jail.
In 1968, Hampton was accused of assaulting an ice cream truck driver, stealing $71 worth of ice cream bars, and giving them to kids in the street. He was convicted in May 1969 and sentenced to two to five years in prison.
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“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“People have to be armed to have power, you see.”
– Fred Hampton
“You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.”
– Fred Hampton
“I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.”
– Fred Hampton
“Like we always said, if you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty and you say I don’t want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I’m too young to die, I wanna live a little bit longer—what you did is, you’re dead already.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
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“When you leave here, leave here saying, the last words, before you go to bed tonight, say, “I am a revolutionary.” Make that the last words in case you don’t wake up. Then somebody might believe it and you might, you know, end up in, what they call it, revolutionary happy hunting grounds.”
– Fred Hampton
“A lot of people get the word revolution mixed up and they think revolution’s a bad word. Revolution is nothing but like having a sore on your body and then you put something on that sore to cure that infection.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
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“We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“People have to be armed to have power, you see.”
– Fred Hampton
“The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don’t care what anybody says. We don’t think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.”
– Fred Hampton
“A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.”
– Fred Hampton
“We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.”
– Fred Hampton
“I 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 Hampton
“We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.”
– Fred Hampton
“I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
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“You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.”
– Fred Hampton
“We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.”
– Fred Hampton
“We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
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“You don’t miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.”
– Fred Hampton
“We have to start learning, and you learn through practice. We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes.”
– Fred Hampton
“They talked us into buying candy bars and throwing the candy away and eating the wrapper.”
– Fred Hampton
“We’re gonna have to do more than talk. We’re gonna have to do more than listen. We’re gonna have to do more than learn. We’re gonna have to start practicing and that’s very hard. We’re gonna have to start getting out there with the people and that’s difficult. Sometimes we think we’re better than the people so it’s gonna take a lot of hard work.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
“The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.”
– Fred Hampton
“Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?”
– Fred Hampton
“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
“If 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 Hampton
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“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.”
– Fred Hampton
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.”
– Fred Hampton
“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.”
– Fred Hampton
“Like we always said, if you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty and you say I don’t want to make that commitment only because of the
simple reason that I’m too young to die, I wanna live a little bit longer—what you did is, you’re dead already.”
– Fred Hampton
“Socialism is the people! You afraid of yourself. If you afraid of socialism, you afraid of yourself.”
– Fred Hampton
“People have to be armed to have power, you see.”
– Fred Hampton
“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
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
“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.”
– Fred Hampton
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“You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.”
– Fred Hampton
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
– Fred Hampton
“We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.”
– Fred Hampton
“You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution…you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.”
– Fred Hampton
““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.”
– Fred Hampton
“People have to be armed to have power, you see.”
– Fred Hampton
“You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.”
– Fred Hampton
“I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.”
– Fred Hampton
“Like we always said, if you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty and you say I don’t want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I’m too young to die, I wanna live a little bit longer—what you did is, you’re dead already.”
– Fred Hampton
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