You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail 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 first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

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

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.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

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

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

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.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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 tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

If You Stop Struggling Then You Stop Life

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I was born in revolution.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.