A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

— Fred Hampton

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.

— Fred Hampton

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

— Fred Hampton

We ain't going to fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're going to organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're going to fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

— Fred Hampton

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. Furthermore, we're going to fight racism with solidarity.

— Fred Hampton

Yes, 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 Hampton