Fred Hampton Quotes

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.

While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.