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

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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

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

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I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. - Huey Newton

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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

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

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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. - Huey Newton

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

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

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