Huey Newton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”
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“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
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“You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
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“The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P Newton (2011). “The Huey P. Newton Reader”, p.149, Seven Stories Press
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“Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin
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“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”
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“I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : "On the Culture Front: Music from the Underground, Part 9" by Chris Kompanek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2017.
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“Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.”
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“Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.”
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“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin
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“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”
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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 family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin
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“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
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“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
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“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : "Revolutionary Suicide". p. 190. Book by Huey Newton, 1973.
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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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“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”
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“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton, Toni Morrison, Elaine Brown (2009). “To die for the people: the writings of Huey P. Newton”, City Lights Publishers
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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 policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.”
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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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“There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.”
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“The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.”
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“We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff.”
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“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”
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“Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin
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“We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppressed people in the society.”
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“The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.”
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“You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.”
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin
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