afro-art-chick:

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”

“There will be no prison which can hold our movement down… The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”

“We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening… we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.”

“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.”

“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”

Happy Birthday to activist & co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942)