"is going through all types of physical and mental torture. But that’s alright, because we said even before this happened, and we’re going to say it after this and after I’m locked up and after everybody’s locked up, that 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 like , but you can’t murder freedom fighting, and if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer, explanations that don’t explain, you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude, and you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and moving on pigs. And that’s what we’ve got to do. So we’re going to see about Bobby regardless of what these people think we should do, because school is not important and work is not important. Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Activists from the United StatesCivil rights activistsRevolutionariesAfrican AmericansCommunists from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Excerpt from Democracy Now.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. He was assassinated in a predawn raid by the Chicago Police Department, Cook County State's Attorney's Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation, as he slept in bed.
11 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Fred Hampton →
Related Quotes
"Why don’t you live for the people. Why don’t you struggle for the people. Why don’t you die for the people."
"If you ever think about me, and if you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on y…"
"You have to understand that people have to pay the price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you …"
"So we say—we always say in the that they can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail…"
"We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism no…"
"Papa Doc in Haiti hated everything white. Man, you couldn't put this white paper in front of Papa Doc's face. But, he…"
"There has to be an educational program - that's very important. As a matter of fact, it is so important to us that a …"
"This system wants Fred Hampton’s tale to remain untold, his militant memory to fade, his life of service to black fol…"
"The execution of Fred Hampton was the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon administration."
"Hampton was instrumental in forming links between the Panthers and organisations of working class Chinese people, whi…"