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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.

— Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Rewriting unjust laws is a basic human right and fundamental obligation.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

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