We do not want war, but we understand that war can only be abolished through war. That in order to put down the gun, make a man get rid of the gun, it’s necessary to pick up a gun.
Fred Hampton, 1969. (via disciplesofmalcolm)
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We do not want war, but we understand that war can only be abolished through war. That in order to put down the gun, make a man get rid of the gun, it’s necessary to pick up a gun.
Fred Hampton, 1969. (via disciplesofmalcolm)
You don’t know whether people relate to the breakfast program, because you’ve never fed anybody. You don’t know anything about the free health clinic because you never asked anybody. You don’t know anything about the good that a gun does you, because you never tried one. And we say that if you was born and if you said you didn’t like pears and you never tasted pears, you’d have to be a liar. You don’t know whether you like pears, but you can’t claim that you don’t like pears. The only way that anybody can tell you the taste of a pear is if he himself has tasted it. That’s the only way. That’s the objective reality. That’s what the Black Panther Party deals with. We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.
Fred Hampton speaking about how you must practice your theory, or else it’s irrelevant, 1969. (via disciplesofmalcolm)
Huey P. Newton got to reading, and he’s not like a lot of us. A lot of us read and read and read, but we don’t get any practice. We have a lot of knowledge in our heads, but we’ve never practiced it; and made any mistakes and corrected those mistakes so that we will be able to do something properly. So we come up with like we say more degrees than a thermometer, but we’re not able to walk across the street and chew gum at the same time, because we have all that knowledge but it’s never been exercised, it’s never been practiced. We never tested it with what’s really happening. We call it testing it with objective reality. You might have any kind of thought in your mind, but you’ve got to test it with what’s out there. You see what I mean?
Fred Hampton, 1969. (via disciplesofmalcolm)
When the Party started to talk about class struggle, we found that we had to start talking about some guns. If we never negated the fact that there was racism in America, but we said that when you, the by-product, what comes off of racism, that capitalism comes first and next is racism. That when they brought slaves over here, it was to take money. So first the idea came that we want to make money, then the slaves came in order to make that money. That means that capitalism had to, through historical fact, racism had to come from capitalism. It had to be capitalism first and racism was a by-product of that.
Fred Hampton, 1969. (via disciplesofmalcolm)
"In high school, Fred was president of the Inter-racial Cross Section Committee. He was not just a leader of Blacks but whites as well. Fred became leader of the youth NAACP at the age of 17, fighting for jobs, better recreation facilities, open housing. He led demonstrations for a swimming pool in Maywood.
Fred attended Triton College, Malcolm X College, and University of Illinois Circle Campus pursuing a pre-law course of studies. So Fred had become very busy—he had worked in groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he met people like Stokely Carmichael, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory and various other people.
After Fred left the youth NAACP and SNCC and started doing things in the Maywood community, he joined the Illinois Black Panther and they chose him as their chairman. While he was chairman, the Illinois Black Panthers were organizing free medical centers, free breakfast programs, free clothing and free busing to prison programs.
Fred told the people to fight for their rights by any means necessary. He was organizing hospital strikes. He also founded what he called the Rainbow Coalition of poor whites, Blacks, Latinos, Indians and Chicanos in the city of Chicago to fight against oppression.
Fred took the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican gang, and the Young Patriots, a white gang from the Uptown area, and made all these groups into a political organization because he was trying to get them to see that racism wasn’t the only problem—that racism was a byproduct of capitalism. He was going to take these groups to wipe out capitalism and oppression.
During the trial, it was shown that the police and FBI were trying to get the gangs against the Panthers because the Panthers were trying to unite the gangs to fight against their oppression.”
Socialist Worker, “The Murder of Fred Hampton”
http://www.filedropper.com/theassassinationoffredhampt-jeffreyhaas
THIS SYSTEM IS OUT TO KILL US AND WE KNOW IT. Some say we are not ready to take on this monster. We say that we do not want to….but that is not the question any longer. The monster has taken us on and we have to deal with reality.”
Fred Hampton, Chairman, Illinois Black Panther, murdered by the FBI and the Chicago Police December 4, 1970 (via propagandawar)
"We have to deal with reality…."
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Protest is when I say I don’t like this and that. Resistance is when I see to it that things I don’t like no longer occur. Protest is when I say I will no longer go along with it. Resistance is when I see to it that no one else goes along with it anymore either.
Fred Hampton.
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12/4/69 - Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark murdered by Chicago police
Fred Hampton
People learn by example. When Huey P. Newton said that people learn basically by observation and participation, I think that everybody caught on to that. So what we’re saying is that if they learn by observation an participation, then we need to do more acting than we need to do writing, and I think the Black Panther Party is doing that. We didn’t talk about a breakfast for children program, we got one.
Fred Hampton
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFKlWm7BIM
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
We sayin’ something like this-we saying that theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit.
Fred Hampton
Taken from a speech given on April 27, 1969.
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
“I dont care how much theory you got, if it don’t have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant. Right? Any theory you get, practice it. And when you practice it you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory that will be able to be applied and used in any situation. Thats what we’ve got to be able to do.”
Fred Hampton, Olivet Church, 1969
“Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. And we’ve got to fight them. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means.”
Fred Hampton (taken from "The Murder of Fred Hampton," 1971)
Bobby Seale is going through all types of physical and mental torture. But that’s all right, because we said even before this happened, and we are going to say it after this and after I’m locked up, and after everybody is locked that: You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution. Right. 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 freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighing. And if you do, you’ve come up with an answer that don’t answer, explanations that don’t explain; you’ve come up with conclusions that don’t conclude.
Fred Hampton. From The Assassination of Fred Hampton movie(1971)
Now, let me show you how were gonna try to do it in the Black Panther Party here. We just got back from the south side. We went out there. We went out there and we got to arguing with the pigs or the pigs got to arguing-he said, “Well, Chairman Fred, you supposed to be so bad, why don’t you go and shoot some of those policemen? You always talking about you got your guns and got this, why don’t you go shoot some of them?” And I’ve said, “you’ve just broken a rule. As a matter of fact, even though you have on a uniform it doesn’t make me any difference. Because I don’t care if you got on nine uniforms, and 100 badges. When you step outside the realm of legality and into the realm of illegality, then I feel that you should be arrested.” And I told him, “You being what they call the law of entrapment, you tried to make me do something that was wrong, you encouraged me, you tried to incite me to shoot a pig. And that ain’t cool, Brother, you know the law, don’t you?” I told that pig that, I told him “You got a gun, pig?” I told him, “You gotta get your hands up against the wall. We’re gonna do what they call a citizens arrest.” This fool don’t know what this is. I said, “Now you be just as calm as you can and don’t make too many quick moves, cause we don’t wanna have to hit you.” And I told him like he always told us, I told him, “Well, I’m here to protect you. Don’t worry about a thing, I’m here for your benefit.” So I sent another Brother to call the pigs. You gotta do that in a citizen’s arrest. He called the pigs. Here come the pigs with carbines and shotguns, walkin’ out there. They came out there talking about how they’re gonna arrest Chairman Fred. And I said, “No fool. This is the man you got to arrest. He’s the one that broke the law.” And what did they do? They bugged their eyes, and they couldn’t stand it. You know what they did? They were so mad, they were so angry that they told me to leave.
Fred Hampton
How to perform a citizen’s arrest.
Taken from a speech at Olivet Church, 1969
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
Fred Hampton. Taken from an issue of The Black Panther.
(1969)