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 NewtonThe policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey NewtonThe walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey NewtonToo many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that
Huey Newton