Quotes

Total 17820 Quotes
photo
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey Newton
Huey P Newton Quotes
Meaning
Death
Huey Newton
photo
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
Huey P Newton Quotes
Brackish
Chop
Huey Newton
photo
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. - Huey Newton
Huey P Newton Quotes
Moment
Unarmed
Huey Newton
photo
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. - Huey Newton
Huey P Newton Quotes
Struggling
Stop
Huey Newton
photo
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - Huey Newton
Huey P Newton Quotes
Doomed
Revolutionary
Huey Newton
photo
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
Huey P Newton Quotes
System
Whatever
Huey Newton
photo
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. - Huey Newton
Huey P Newton Quotes
Images
Positive
Huey Newton
photo
I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Different
Heavy
John Lewis
photo
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Disciplined
Committed
John Lewis
photo
When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Wrong
Mistakes
John Lewis
photo
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Happiness
Distance
John Lewis
photo
I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Vietnam
Understand
John Lewis
photo
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
February
Discipline
John Lewis
photo
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Something
Home
John Lewis
photo
There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Right
Agitation
John Lewis
photo
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Embedded
Stains
John Lewis
photo
It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Political
Disgrace
John Lewis
photo
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Speak
Something
John Lewis
photo
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Possible
People
John Lewis
photo
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way. - John Lewis
John Lewis Quotes
Find
Courageous
John Lewis