Tag: Huey Newton
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton
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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 defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton
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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.
Huey Newton
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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey Newton
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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
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton
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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton
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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.
Huey Newton