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

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Reform is China's second revolution. - Deng Xiaoping

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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 revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. - 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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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ― Joseph Stalin

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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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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - Huey Newton

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

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