Quotes from H. Rap Brown


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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.


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


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


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


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


When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.


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


You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.


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.


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


The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.


There is no such thing as a black middle class.


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.


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.


Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.


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


We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.


You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.


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.


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