KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Huey Newton Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Huey Newton

Showing 1-10 of 25 Quotes by Huey Newton

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

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Huey Newton

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 17th, 1942

Died: August 22nd, 1989

Links

Find Huey Newton on Amazon

Related Authors

Susan B. Anthony
Cesar Chavez
Noam Chomsky
Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X

Popular Authors

Deepak Chopra St. Jerome Samuel Johnson Douglas Macarthur Sylvia Plath Thomas Sowell J. R. R. Tolkien Mae West

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1707 - Carolus Linnaeus

1799 - Thomas Hood

1810 - Margaret Fuller

1824 - Ambrose Burnside

1846 - John Buchanan Robinson

1848 - Otto Lilienthal

1868 - Harry Graf Kessler

1875 - Alfred P. Sloan

1883 - Douglas Fairbanks

1888 - Zack Wheat

Birthdays on May 23rd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Birthday Courage Health Mom Pet Saint Patrick's Day Success