I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. - 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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. - Huey Newton

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You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. - 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 have the people behind me and the people are my strength. - 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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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. - Huey Newton

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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. — Ellen Degeneres

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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. - Huey Newton

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