Quotes from Huey Newton

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.

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

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

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

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

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

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

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

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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.

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.

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