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Huey Newton Quotes

American - Activist | February 17, 1942 - August 22, 1989

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Strength People Me Behind

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Walls People Down Never Guns Hold

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

Political Country Person First Lived

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Revolution Hands Young Always Been

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Learning School Mind Programming Get

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Positive Black Media White Create

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Success Father Mother American You

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Book Go First Over Something Five

No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.

I Am Prison Feel You Say More

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.

Fear I Am People Me Right Reason

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Man Learn Lesson First Must He

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.

Life Community Time Step My Life

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