52 Quotes by Fred Hampton

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

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 . . .

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.

The people have to have the power – it belongs to the people.

We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.