Huey Newton

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

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.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

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

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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

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

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

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.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.