Huey Newton Quotes

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

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

What fixes your spirit when Ferguson happens? When Trayvon Martin and those kind of things happen, they hurt your spirit; it hurts your heart and your soul. You need something to fix it.

The world is a horrible place, but no one worries because we have all been pacified by anodyne television in which incorruptible cops solve crimes, crusading lawyers keep the innocent out of prison, and streetwise social workers rescue children from abuse.

Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.

Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

In 'When They Call You a Terrorist,' I reflect on my time growing up in Van Nuys, California, surrounded by my devoted family and supportive friends, weaving our experiences into the larger picture of how predominantly marginalized neighborhoods are under constant systemic attack.

The violence in 'Visaranai' is based on reality.

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

The point that I would make is it's easy for somebody like me to be critical of Colin Kaepernick, but I haven't suffered some of the same issues that Colin Kaepernick has. On some level, it's like, how dare I weigh in on what Kaepernick is doing or feeling?

I can't even go to Rolling Loud and perform without the police and the news lying on me, trying to lock me up.

The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.

Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.

We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.