H. Rap Brown Quotes
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
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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.