H. Rap Brown Quotes

• Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

  H. Rap Brown

  Rebellion, Individual, Conditions

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• 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 be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

  H. Rap Brown

  Mean, Pie, America

  "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.

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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.

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, Mirrors, Belief

  "Opening statements expected in trial of ex-Black Panther". www.cnn.com. February 19, 2002.

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Obligation

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.7, Chicago Review Press

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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.

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, Believe, People

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• 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

  Country, Fall, Talking

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• 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

  People, Community, Black

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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.

  H. Rap Brown

  Believe, Men, Battle

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave

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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.

  H. Rap Brown

  Pregnancy, Second Chance, Class

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• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  H. Rap Brown

  Poverty, Program

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

  H. Rap Brown

  America, Ifs

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• 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 majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

  H. Rap Brown

  Thinking, Numbers, Color

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• 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

  Commitment, Together, Consciousness

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• You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

  H. Rap Brown

  Black, Heritage, Define Yourself

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  H. Rap Brown

  Military, Pie, Violence

  Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7

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• I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

  H. Rap Brown

  Law, Body, Made

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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. 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

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• You cannot legislate an attitude.

  H. Rap Brown

  Attitude

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Talking, Eras, Revolution

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, People, Black

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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.

  H. Rap Brown

  Hands, People, Leader

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• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  H. Rap Brown

  Class, Middle, Divides

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Lying, Progress, Deceit

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• 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

  Men, Black, Doe

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