My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey Newton

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Racism is an excuse used for capitalism. ― Fred Hampton

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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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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. - 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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

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All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. - Rita Moreno

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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

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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 jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. - Huey Newton

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