Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. - Huey Newton

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey Newton

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

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

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

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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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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