Quotes by Huey Newton

• The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
• The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
• Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
• My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
• If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
• I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
• 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.
• I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
• Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
• There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
• We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
• The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
• You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
• There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.