American - Activist | February 17, 1942 - August 22, 1989
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
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You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
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