“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. 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… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
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.… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind. — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic. — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say… — Fred Hampton Copy Share
We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle. — Fred Hampton Copy Share
“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting. And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer, explanations that… — Fred Hampton Copy Share
