Huey Newton Quotes

An oppressed people will always rise.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

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

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

Power Concedes Nothing

I've always been proud that I come from people who were activists, who have this indomitable spirit. I am proud to have inherited the spirit of resistance and revolution.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

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

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.