Fred Hampton speaks outside a courthouse, October 29, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1781 He would be murdered by the FBI and Chicago police just over a month later. 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. - Fred Hampton on s

The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...