Latest Huey Newton Quotes from Interviews

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• I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

  Huey Newton

  Fighting, Thinking, Causes

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• When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

  Huey Newton

  Killing, Being Accused, Accused

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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.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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• I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

  Huey Newton

  Cute, Fighting, Thinking

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• I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

  Huey Newton

  Party, People, Way

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• We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

  Huey Newton

  Cleaver, Committees, Mesmerized

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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.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Leader, Vote

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• I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Gun, Years

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• What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Trying, Prison

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• I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

  Huey Newton

  Mother, School, Revolution

  Source: www.afro.com

• When I founded the party in 1966, I had just turned 24.And each year, no, not each year, each day I live I've gained new experiences. Now the criticism is not to say the party did not play a positive part in those times, but, in order to be objective, we did not accomplish the things we set out to accomplish.

  Huey Newton

  Party, New Experiences, Order

  Source: www.afro.com

• 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

  Thinking, Government, Black

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• I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.

  Huey Newton

  Attitude, Prejudice, Discrimination

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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.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, White, Differences

  Source: www.afro.com

• I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.afro.com

• 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.

  Huey Newton

  Strong, Years, Jamaica

  Source: www.afro.com

• The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.

  Huey Newton

  Country, Real, Mean

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• The United States is already antique.

  Huey Newton

  United States, Antiques, States

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• The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  Huey Newton

  Latin, America, Blood

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• I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World in general. I'll like to say this - we in the United States would never believe that another form of goverment - I don't care even if it's against the racism, etc. - it is hard to get the masses of people to believe or accept that a socialist government will relieve them of most of the problems.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Socialist Government, Racism

  Source: www.afro.com

• I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.afro.com

• 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

  Cities, Suffering, United States

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• I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, America, Cuba

  Source: www.afro.com

• I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.

  Huey Newton

  Add, Guilty, Innocent

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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.

  Huey Newton

  Struggle, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.afro.com