Jo Huey Quotes

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

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

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

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

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

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

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

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

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

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

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

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.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

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

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

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

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

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.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

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

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

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

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war