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“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”
Source: Interview in The Movement, August 1968
Context Given from jail in 1968, as the Black Panther Party co-founder awaited trial over the death of an Oakland police officer; his conviction was later overturned.
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