H. Rap Brown Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage. — H. Rap Brown

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

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. — 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

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

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. — H. Rap Brown

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

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

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. — H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

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

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

The long-simmering anger at racism and economic injustice of alienated black youth in the ghettoes was erupting into violent and destructive urban insurrections. In every case these "riots" were triggered by police brutality or misconduct, most usually the killing or brutalizing of an unarmed black man. — H. Rap Brown

Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective. — H. Rap Brown

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. — H. Rap Brown

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. — H. Rap Brown

You cannot legislate an attitude. — H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. — H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No such thing as a Dixiecrat. — H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do. — H. Rap Brown

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

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