Tag: Huey Newton
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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey Newton
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No one can say, ‘I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.’ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.
Huey Newton
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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton
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We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
Huey Newton
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I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
Huey Newton
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton
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I read Plato’s ‘Republic.’ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
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Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
Huey Newton