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

~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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 17th, 1942

Died: August 22nd, 1989

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