“ It is true that two wrongs don’t make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn’t make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn’t. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.
“ I always carried law books in my car. Sometimes, when a policeman was harassing a citizen, I would stand off a little and read the relevant portions of the penal code in a loud voice to all within hearing distance. If the policeman arrested the citizen and took him to the station, we would follow and immediately post bail.
— Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide
“ The moment someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you, and when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association, and that’s not the way to have a conversation.
“ The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, move the tables and chairs away and you will see the brick wall at the end of the theater.
