H. Rap Brown Quotes

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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.…
• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
• 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…
• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
• When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
• 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.…
• 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…
• Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
• 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…
• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little 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…
• I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to…
• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
• 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…
• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
• If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
• 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…
• 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…

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