Huey Percy Newton Quotes

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

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

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

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• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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• The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

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

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• If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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

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• I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

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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.

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

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

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

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Huey Percy Newton (17)

Birth:	17th February, 1942
Death:	22nd August, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Revolutionary

About

Huey Percy Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He was an American political activist and revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a Ph.D. in social philosophy. He earned an Associate of Arts degree from Merritt College in 1966. He then attended San Francisco Law School, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned a bachelor's degree. In his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide, he states: "Most of all, I questioned what was happening in my own family and in the community around me." In 1989 he was shot and killed in Oakland, California.

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