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

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

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

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.
H. Rap Brown

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

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

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
H. Rap Brown


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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