52 Quotes by Fred Hampton

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.

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.

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.

In plain proletarian worker’s language, it takes two to tango.

I’m not going to die slipping on no ice.

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.

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.

A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.