“If you walk through life and don’t help anybody, you haven’t had much of a life” ― Fred Hampton

Links:

  1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fred-Hampton
  2. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/9/22267037/fred-hampton-black-panther-chicago-life-death-legacy
  3. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/12/03/in-1969-charismatic-black-panthers-leader-fred-hampton-was-killed-in-a-hail-of-gunfire-50-years-later-the-fight-against-police-brutality-continues/
  4. https://digitalchicagohistory.org/exhibits/show/fred-hampton-50th/who-was-fred-hampton-
  5. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hampton-fred-1948-1969/
  6. https://www.biography.com/activists/a45988576/fred-hampton
  7. https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/fred-hampton
  • @SirDerpy
    3•3 months ago

    If you ever think about me, and if you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind, if you’re not gonna work for the people. Like we always said, if you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty and you say I don’t want to make that commitment only because of the simple reason that I’m too young to die, I wanna live a little bit longer—what you did is, you’re dead already.

    Fred Hampton, revolutionary