"The walls, the bars, the guns and the……" — Huey Newton
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
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43 Quotes by Huey Newton
Huey Newton has 43 quotes on this site.
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the…
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Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of…
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By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life
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You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
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Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything…
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Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's…
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During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to…
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You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul…
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The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black…
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Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
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We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because…
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But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the…
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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