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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
― Huey P. Newton

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
― Huey P. Newton

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.”
― Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

“The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary political organization. Although its members were leaders of the Black Power movement, they were not black nationalists. Their “black pride” was not based on denigrating whites, but on showing the black community how to take control of its own destiny. The Black Panther Party worked for economic justice and power for all people. Bobby”
― Bobby Seale, Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

“I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.”
― George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson