I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. - Huey Newton

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I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key. - Henry Mancini

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. - 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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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. - 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 have the people behind me and the people are my strength. - Huey Newton

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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

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