The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
From Huey Newton
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
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.
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