American - Activist | August 30, 1948 - December 4, 1969
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
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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.
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
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I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
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We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
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We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.
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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.
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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.
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I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
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