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Huey Newton
American
Activist
About the author
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Man
#First
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Soldiers
#Racism
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Revolution
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#People
#Slavery
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Want
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Death
#Fear
#Meaning
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Life
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Love
#People
#Hate
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#People
#Strength
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Time
#Life
#Being
#Consciousness
#Community
#Defeat
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Positive
#Media
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#People
#Power
#Destiny
#Giving
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Right
#People
#Fear
#Reason
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Fight
#Racism
#Capitalism
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#People
#Idea
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Revolution
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton,
American
Activist
#Will
#Prison