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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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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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Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
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Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
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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.
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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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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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You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
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I am very happy here [on Cuba], but I feel I have work to do in the United States. It's where I can identify with the total world struggle for socialism. But I think as a North American, as a Black North American, I have certain understandings - certain contributions - to make that are unique to the North Amerian experience.
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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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I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
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I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones.
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I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.
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Let us go on outdoing ourselves a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.
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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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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
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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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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 revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to.
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I think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one common denominator. The Cubans found a way to liberate themselves and we haven't found the way yet. So that's the difference.
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The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.
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