A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
Fred HamptonYes, 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.
Fred HamptonIf you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.
Fred HamptonWe 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.
Fred Hampton