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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
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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.
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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
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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.
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
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Biography

Type: Activist
Nationality: American
Born: February 17, 1942
Died: August 22, 1989

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