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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
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Prison
Will
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
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Revolution
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
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People
Idea
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
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Capitalism
Fight
Racism
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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People
Fear
Reason
Right
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
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Power
People
Destiny
Giving
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
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Positive
Media
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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Time
Life
Being
Community
Consciousness
Defeat
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
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People
Strength
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
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Love
People
Hate
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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Life
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Death
Fear
Meaning
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
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Want
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
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People
Slavery
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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Revolution