H. Rap Brown Quotes
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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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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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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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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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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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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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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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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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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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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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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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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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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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've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower 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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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.