Huey Newton

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

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

“No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.”

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

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

“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.”