I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.- Huey Newton

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - 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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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. - Huey Newton

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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - 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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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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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