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American
-
Activist
February 17
, 1942 -
August 22
, 1989
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton
You
,
Revolution
,
Jail
,
Revolutionary
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton
Power
,
Black
,
People
,
Destiny
,
Giving
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.
Huey Newton
Time
,
Tree
,
Walk
,
Fruit
,
Seeds
,
Plant
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
Huey Newton
Black
,
People
,
Believe
,
Violence
,
Never
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Huey Newton
Gun
,
You
,
Sometimes
,
Want
,
Up
,
Get
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton
People
,
Walls
,
Down
,
Never
,
Guns
,
Hold
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton
Hands
,
Revolution
,
Young
,
Always
,
Been
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton
Racism
,
Capitalism
,
Fight
,
Two
,
Destroy
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton
Love
,
Great
,
Hate
,
People
,
Think
,
Other
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton
Fear
,
Death
,
Meaning
,
Without
,
Itself
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton
Racism
,
Gun
,
Soldiers
,
Only
,
Hand
,
Make
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton
Moment
,
People
,
Slavery
,
Slaves
,
Subject
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey Newton
Strength
,
People
,
Me
,
Behind
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey Newton
Positive
,
Black
,
Media
,
Create
,
White
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton
Prison
,
Down
,
Will
,
Movement
,
Hold
,
Our
I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
Huey Newton
Learning
,
School
,
Mind
,
Programming
,
Get
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton
Life
,
You
,
Stop
,
Then
,
Struggling
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey Newton
Man
,
Learn
,
Lesson
,
First
,
He
,
Must
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
Huey Newton
Success
,
Father
,
Mother
,
American
,
You
No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
Huey Newton
I Am
,
Prison
,
Feel
,
You
,
Say
,
More
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
Understand
,
Through
,
Republic
,
Five
Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
Huey Newton
Political
,
Person
,
Country
,
First
,
Lived
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
Fear
,
I Am
,
People
,
Me
,
Right
,
Reason
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Huey Newton
Book
,
Go
,
First
,
Over
,
Republic
,
Five
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
Life
,
Time
,
Community
,
Step
,
My Life
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