Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton
Fred Hamptonwas an American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and deputy chairman of the national BPP. Hampton was assassinated while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1969. A civil lawsuit filed in 1970 resulted in 1982 in a settlement of $1.85 million. The background...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth30 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
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.
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.
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.
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.
I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.
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.
The people have to have the power -- it belongs to the people.
If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
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.
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
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.