H. Rap Brown Quotes
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.