If you stop struggling, then you stop life. Huey Newton More Quotes by Huey Newton More Quotes From Huey Newton We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society. Huey Newton real reading people Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way. Huey Newton violent existence way There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. Huey Newton patriotism movement prison 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 dignity suicide self 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 fighting cute thinking The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation. Huey Newton gun military war I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people. Huey Newton knows people The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Huey Newton wall gun ideas 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 Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States. Huey Newton had-enough information party 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 community prison people 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 new-experiences party order Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. Huey Newton suicide opposites mean I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside. Huey Newton government literature teacher 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 revolution mother school 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 prison trying thinking 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 real mean country 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 being-accused accused killing The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better. Huey Newton government months country 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 socialist-government racism believe
