Judas and the Black Messiah is a powerful and tragic masterpiece of a movie that is filled with amazing quotes.
Judas and the Black Messiah Quotes
Judas and the Black Messiah is an extremely powerful film that is filled with incredible quotes. This movie is a pure masterpiece. As always I try to avoid spoilers. However as you get to the bottom of the list, there could be some minor ones so please be careful if you have not yet watched the film.
“Those are not riots, those are rebellions! People are rebelling because of their conditions.”
“A badge is scarier than a gun.”
“Political power flow from the barrel of a gun.”
“Just so you know, you are a poet.”
“War is politics with bloodshed. Politics is war without bloodshed.”
“There’s strength in numbers.”
“Free your mind for just a quarter.”
“Housing. Justice. Peace.”
“These aren’t just your sisters, they’re your sisters in arms. Act like it.”
“What can I do to help?”
“Somebody gotta show the pig who’s boss.”
“Stay sharp.”
“The Black Panther party believes in progression.”
“We don’t want no problem brother, we just passing through.”
“Imagine what we could accomplish together.”
“At one point for me he was like a role model.”
“The Panthers and the Klan are one in the same.”
“I’m all for civil rights but you can’t cheat your way to equality. And you certainly can’t shoot your way to it.”
“You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Now make yourself at home.”
“The Crowns feed more families than General Mills.”
“At least they died for the people. We should be so lucky.”
“I am a revolutionary.”
“You can murder a freedom fighter but you can’t murder freedom.”
“I used to pretend I was a Fed when I would boost cars.”
“Guess what? America’s on fire right now and until that fire is extinguished nothing else don’t mean a thing.”
“We here to change that. The Black Panthers, the Young Lords, and the Young Patriots are forming a rainbow coalition of oppressed brothers and sisters of every color.”
“No more pigs in our community.”
“You disgust me.”
“He’s at the bottom of the river with the rest of the trash.”
“What did I tell you? No different from the Klan. Now you see.”
“I will make sure you’re properly compensated.”
“It takes a thief to catch a thief.”
“The pigs keep us isolated, because they know if we get organized, it’s over for their asses.”
“Where some see despair, I see ground zero for the Revolution.”
“You can thank the Black Panthers for the increase in police presence.”
“That’s how you rebuild comrade.”
“Anywhere there’s people, there’s power.”
“I’m gonna die for the people because I live for the people. I live for the people because I love the people.”
“He did that, but that ain’t all he did. Tell them about my Jake.”
“It don’t seem fair that that’s his legacy.”
“We got to do something big and we gotta do it now.”
“Prison is a temporary solution.”
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About Judas and the Black Messiah
Fred Hampton’s cathartic words “I am a revolutionary” became a rallying call in 1969. As chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Hampton demanded all power to the people and inspired a growing movement of solidarity, prompting the FBI to consider him a threat and to plant informant William O’Neal to infiltrate the party.
Judas and the Black Messiah not only recounts Hampton’s legacy and the FBI’s conspiring but also gives equal footing to the man who became infamous for his betrayal – highlighting the systems of inequality and oppression that fed both of their roles.
Judas and the Black Messiah comes to HBO Max and theaters on February 12, 2021.
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