Huey Newton Quotes
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Racism, Soldiers)
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Revolution)
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."
- Huey Newton
(Related: People, Slavery)
"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Want)
"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Death, Fear, Meaning)
"If you stop struggling, then you stop life."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Life)
"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Love, People, Hate)
"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength."
- Huey Newton
(Related: People, Strength)
"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
(Related: Time, Life, Being, Community, Consciousness, Defeat)
"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Positive, Media)
"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Power, People, Destiny, Giving)
"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
(Related: People, Fear, Reason, Right)
"We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Capitalism, Fight, Racism)
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
- Huey Newton
(Related: People, Idea)
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Revolution)
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Prison, Will)