H. Rap Brown Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
H. Rap Brown Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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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.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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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.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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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.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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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!
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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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.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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