Huey Newton Quotes

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

Moment, Slavery, Subject

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

Power, Giving, Black

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

Great, Love, Hate

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton

Life, Stop, Struggling

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton

Revolution, Jail

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

Death, Fear, Meaning

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton

Fight, Racism, Two

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

Revolution, Young, Hands

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

Positive, Black, Expect

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

Learn, Lesson, Doomed

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey Newton

Strength, Behind

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton

Down, Idea, Hold

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

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Huey Newton

Sometimes, Gun, Pick

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, Mean

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

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton

Down, Hold, Movement

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 17, 1942

Died: August 22, 1989

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