Huey Newton Quotes

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Nothing could have survived our life.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

It's only life. We all get through it.

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.

I have decided not to die.

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.