A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.
Fred HamptonRead
Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Empowering the people is essential for a just society.
This quote emphasizes the importance of returning power to the people to ensure a fair and equitable society. Fred Hampton advocates for collective control over societal resources and decision-making, asserting that true change can only occur when authority and responsibility are shared among the populace.
Themes
EmpowermentPeoplePowerSocietyJustice
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a rally to inspire participants to demand more power in governance.
More from Fred Hampton
All quotes βWe say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.
Fred HamptonRead
We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just - it's a byproduct of capitalism.
Fred HamptonRead
We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.
Fred HamptonRead
The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
Fred HamptonRead
We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
Fred HamptonRead
Similar quotes
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs
James ConnollyRead
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.
Alexander HamiltonRead
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
Daniel YerginRead
The vote controls everything that you do.
John LewisRead
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey NewtonRead
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. StevensonRead