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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.
Huey Newton
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Huey Newton
Age: 47 †
Born: 1942
Born: February 17
Died: 1989
Died: August 22
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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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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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Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
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The United States is already antique.
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The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.
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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 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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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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To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
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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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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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We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.
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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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Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish it means just the opposite.
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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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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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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
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By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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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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