Fred Hampton Quotes

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

Everybody remember, Black Lives Matter.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.