H. Rap Brown Quotes

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.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Until, Everybody

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown

American, Violence, Necessary

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.
H. Rap Brown

Family, Knowledge, Teacher

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown

Saying, Cannot, Class

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Country, Poverty

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
H. Rap Brown

God, Society, Understand

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.
H. Rap Brown

Men, Together, Others

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown

Politics, War, Yes

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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Black, Down, Law

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown

Free, Between, Either

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown

Second, Bit, Pregnant

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.
H. Rap Brown

Leadership, Revolution, Leader

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.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Revolution, Country

And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown

Understand, Class, Save

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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Cannot, Class, Afford

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
H. Rap Brown

Down, America, Around

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown

Tell, Making, Progress

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown

Justice, Country, Joke

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Country, Themselves

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!
H. Rap Brown

Black, Head, Beat

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown

Politics, Today, Black

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown

Free, Gun, Powder

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown

Poverty, Program, Eliminate

There is no such thing as a black middle class.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Class, Middle

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Nationality: American

Born: October 4, 1943

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