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“We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible.”

Source: Revolutionary Suicide (1973), chapter 1

Context In the opening chapter of his autobiography, written with the sociologist J. Herman Blake, he defines the concept of revolutionary suicide that gives the book its title.

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Huey P. NewtonUnited States · 1942–1989
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