"In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967).Rewriting unjust laws is a basic human right and fundamental obligation. Such lawmakers ignore the fact that it is the duty of the poor and unrepresented to construct rules and laws that serve their interest better. There is no disagreements about this function of law in any circle-the disagreement arises from the question of which men laws are to serve. The laws and rules which officials inflict upon poor people prevent them from functioning harmoniously in society. They are established by men and should serve men.
It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat.
HUEY NEWTON TRIAL
At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community. My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.Thus the American colonialists, the French of the late eighteenth century, the Russians of 1917, the Jews of Warsaw, the Cubans, the NLF, the North Vietnamese-any people who struggle against a brutal and powerful force-are suicidal. When scholars call our actions suicidal, they should be logically consistent and describe all historical revolutionary movements in the same way. Jumping off a bridge is not the same as moving to wipe out the overwhelming force of an oppressive army. Scholars and academics, in particular, have been quick to make this accusation. Some see our struggle as a symbol of the trend toward suicide among Blacks.Yet when I think of individuals in the revolution, I cannot predict their survival.
The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism. I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph.Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish it means just the opposite.Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. I do not think life will change for the better without an assault on the establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: Jin The Huey P.To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p.You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul.quoted in David Hilliard (2006) Huey: Spirit of the Panther, p.
I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life.Press conference (July 1980), quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther p.I imagine now they'll at least have to call me Dr. My foes have called me bum, hoodlum, criminal.To Die for the People (1972), paraphrasing Mao Zedong's "Serve the People".To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."In Defense of Self-Defense" (20 June 1967).An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to slavery at any given moment.The initial socioeconomic advantage, begotten by chattel slavery, was enforced by undaunted violence and the constant threat of more violence. Clear-cut superiority in things social and economic-by whatever means-has been a scruples-free premise of American ruling class authority from the society's inception to the present.
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