HUEY NEWTON

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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishment’s hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

HUEY NEWTON

We [Black 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 oppressed people in the society.

HUEY NEWTON

The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs him into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

HUEY NEWTON

During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history.

All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

HUEY NEWTON

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist, and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.