Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

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

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I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system. - Huey Newton

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No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing. - Huey Newton

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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - 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 have the people behind me and the people are my strength. - Huey Newton

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

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

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

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