I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. Huey Newton More Quotes by Huey Newton More Quotes From Huey Newton You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. Huey Newton walk you time tree 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. Huey Newton programming learning mind school 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. Huey Newton person first political country 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. Huey Newton you mother success father 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. Huey Newton i-am feel you prison The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something. Huey Newton over something go book
