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

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It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

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Racism is an excuse used for capitalism. ― Fred Hampton

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - 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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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. - Huey Newton

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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists' ― Thomas Sowell

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

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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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