Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. - 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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To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism. - Jacob Weisberg

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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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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. - 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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If you stop struggling, then you stop life. - 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 got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't do anything. One day, this friend of mine said, 'Do you want to play some blackjack?' -Gladys Knight

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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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