Huey Newton Quotes

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Huey Newton

Profession : Activist

Birth : February 17, 1942

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

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 read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Huey Newton

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