Huey Newton Quotes

I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.

Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.

This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.