91 result(s) for Huey Newton Quotes.
"Why is the black man fighting for integration, just to prove he's a man?"
"Repression is when you bring out guns and clubs; oppression is in the spirit of people."
"Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion."
"The price of freedom is high. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and willingness to act."
"The spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
"Sometimes we have to do outrageous things in order to get attention."
"The first requisite to the people's happiness is the abolition of religion."
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"In the beginning, sometimes I was not on top of the news items, the controversies, the people who were insulting me."
"The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves."
"Let me say that the death of George Jackson is a heavy blow to the realization of the black people in prison."
"The Black Panther Party is not an anti-white organization. The Black Panther Party is a revolutionary organization."
"You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity."
"We had a thesis in the Black Panther Party: socialism without democracy is totalitarianism."
"The revolution is a war between the future and the past."
"To die for the revolution is a one in a million chance."
"The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle."
"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
"The struggle for freedom is the struggle to create equality."
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
"The function of the Panthers is to not only fight for freedom but to expose the whole decadent capitalist society."
"The only way to integrate is to give everyone a piece of the pie."
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"All people have the right to withdraw their labor. The worker is not a slave."
"The gun is the only thing that will free us—gain us our liberation."
"Anything that will help the plight of Black people is worth considering by any means necessary."
"The revolution is a serious thing, a violent thing, a painful thing."
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the hangman's noose make you less of a human being."
"I am not a 'racist.' I am an American who realizes the tragic facts of our nation."
"The police are in the community not to promote our welfare or for our security, but they are there to contain us, to brutalize us and murder us."
"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny."
"The time has come when silence is betrayal."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"It's impossible to be unbiased. Everyone has a bias. People who claim not to are the most prejudiced."
"You can be a revolutionary all by yourself. You just open your mouth and make an assertion in the face of lies."
"Committing revolutionary suicide in the black movement means strength of the black community to rid itself of the most deadly oppressor - the white mind."
"Black men have a hard time holding down a wife and family because of the assassination attempts."
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"Racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide."
"A revolutionary is not someone who wishes to rearrange society, but someone who wishes to recreate it from the bottom up."
"The most positive thing a man can do in response to an inhuman world is to say no, and, where necessary, to fight."
"We have to stand up, the men of the country have to stand up against these whores of war."
"The imperialism of our day is taking different forms from those of bygone days."
"The revolution is a process, so it's impossible to stop the revolutionary process."
"The price of freedom is death."
"In order to judge a person's character, you must see the man operate in times of adversity."
"The Black Panther Party will continue to organize black ghettoes."
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
"Revolution is a process that does not stop."
"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people."
"The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality."
"All cultures and societies oppress women in some way."
"In the spirit of the people, I extend greetings and good wishes to all."
"The oppressed people are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes by those who say 'Trust us, we've got a good system here.'"
"As long as you don't live in harmony with nature and other people, by work, you're in ignorance."
"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
"I led the life of an intellectual up to this year, 1966. But then I woke up."
"We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism."
"You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up."
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments’ hands. They make the racist secure in his racism."
"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."
"The greatest weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
"If you stop struggling, then you stop life."
"Power is the ability to define phenomena and make it act in a desired manner."
"When a man moves, he moves toward his own death."
"The first step in preventing the establishment from humiliating you is to prevent them from defining you."
"The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber."
"I don’t mind cutting a reformed capitalist’s throat with the knife he used on me."
"No man will survive who genuinely opposes action, and no woman will survive who opposes revolution."
"Defend the oppressed and fight the oppressor."
"Black men have traditionally represented the primary victims of the American male’s assertion that his manhood is proved by the number of times he can conquer a woman."
"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."
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
"You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution."
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."
"The people have the right to resist and oppose violence."
"Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life."
"The only way to handle unwelcome injustice is to be just."
"We must strive to be ideological practitioners."
"The tyrant has the appearance of power. But power, in the precise social relation, is never just one side; it never belongs to one individual."
"The revolution has to be waged tirelessly, continuously and with a growing intensity."
"The colonial system is vividly and cleverly set up to maintain colonial domination over the world."
"We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism."
"As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead."
"Reformism is seductive and pulls you up by the bootstraps."
"There is no excuse to give in to anything simply because it has been done before. Challenge all conformities!"
"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."
"Fear isn't the natural state of civilization. It's barely a sign of civilization. Fear is the most effective way to control people."
"Power is the ability to define a phenomena and make it act in a desired manner."
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
"In this country – with its institutions, with the way it treats black people – black people won’t be free until the country itself is free."
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