Huey Newton Quotes (18 Quotes)

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

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

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

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

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

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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

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

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

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I suggested in 1966 that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner then he will strike out.