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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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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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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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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. ― Fred Hampton

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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. - Huey Newton

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

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