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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.
Huey Newton
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Huey Newton
Age: 47 †
Born: 1942
Born: February 17
Died: 1989
Died: August 22
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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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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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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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By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life
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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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I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
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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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I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
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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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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
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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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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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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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White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.
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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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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
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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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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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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
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