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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I read Plato’s ‘Republic.’ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. Huey Newton Read Quote
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. Huey Newton Read Quote
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. Huey Newton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Huey Newton Read Quote
