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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.
Huey Newton
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Huey Newton
Age: 47 †
Born: 1942
Born: February 17
Died: 1989
Died: August 22
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Human Rights Activist
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Monroe
Louisiana
Dr. Huey P. Newton
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More quotes by Huey Newton
You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.
Huey Newton
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society only the people can do that
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
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
When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.
Huey Newton
I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
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.
Huey Newton
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
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
Huey Newton