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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Huey Newton

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Huey Newton
Age: 47 †
Born: 1942
Born: February 17
Died: 1989
Died: August 22
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Philosopher
Politician
Sociologist
Monroe
Louisiana
Dr. Huey P. Newton
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The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.
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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
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The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.
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You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
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Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish it means just the opposite.
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We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff.
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Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
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Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States.
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There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.
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We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.
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The United States is already antique.
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.
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A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.
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I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.
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