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17 quotes by Huey Newton

Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. Newton had a long series of confrontations with law enforcement, including several convictions, while he participated in political activism. He continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a Ph.D. in Social Science. Newton spent time in prison for...
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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.

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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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... →

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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

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