Huey Newton Quotes

The radicals who you in Washington have co-opted … You’ve been using them. They believe in communism. They believe in and have called for revolution. You’re going to have to shoot them in the head.

apolitical movement is always influenced by its leader’s personality.

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

[Donald] Trump will be who it is that changes their names, and if Trump succeeds, and they don't change their minds, then it's hopeless. Then they don't want to change their minds and they don't want to think anything other than negative things.

Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.