Quotes by H. Rap Brown - Page 1

You cannot legislate an attitude.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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Class
Middle
Middle Class
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Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.
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Conditions
Individual
Rebellion
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Class
Differences
Save
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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Class
Luxury
Structure
Afford
We Cannot
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Gun
Powder
The Only Thing
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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America
Ifs
Come
Around
Burn
Down
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Poverty
Program
Designed
Eliminate
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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Dividing
Organize
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Military
Pie
Violence
American
Cherry
Say
Necessary
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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Be A Slave
Slave
Slavery
Free
Either
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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Joke
Stinks
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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Caught
Eras
Revolution
Talking
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Human Beings
Revolution
Beings
Correct
Decadent
Set
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Class
Divides
Lower Class
Middle
Middle Class
Cannot
Divide
Lower
Saying
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You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.
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Black
Define Yourself
Heritage
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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Poverty
Program
Programs
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Bloodshed
Extension
Yes
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Black
Causes
Country
Oppression
People
Poverty
Address
Itself
Black Country People
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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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Deceit
Empty
Lying
Progress
Chair
Lies
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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Obligations
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Revolutionary
Struggle
Vanguard
Dispossessed
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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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Organize
Across
Black Country People
Unite
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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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Citizenship
Class
Little Bit
Pregnancy
Pregnant
Second Chance
Bit
Second
Telling
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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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Black
Country
Relevant
Revolution
Today
Politics Today People
None
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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.
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Body
Law
Made
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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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Men
Beats
Black
Doe
Beat
Cadillac
Ford
Head
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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.
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Truth
Injustice
Justice
Lying
Rewards
Righteousness
More
Allah
State
Lie
Over
Seek
Than
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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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Black
Black Community
Community
Organize
People
Alliance
Community Black People
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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.
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Belief
Country
Mirrors
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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.
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Men
Battle
Believe
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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.'
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Color
Concepts
Majority
Numbers
Thinking
Third World
World Look People
Attack
Be The First
First World
Look World People
Terms
Third
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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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Leadership
Hands
Leader
People
Revolution
Always People Will
African
Dispossessed
Remain
Says
Shared
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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.
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Consciousness
Creator
Deeds
Good Deeds
Remembrance
Struggle
Successful
Demands
Requires
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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.
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Commitment
Consciousness
Social
Together
Against
Basis
Coming
Themselves
Transgress
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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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Believe
Country
Indian
Mexican
People
Revolution
Believe I Believe Black
Dispossessed
Believe Black Country
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Terms
Rican
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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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Black
Confined
Country
Fall
Talking
Keep Law People
Around
Did
Same
Down
Legally
Morally
Neither
Nor
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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.
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Belief
Brown
Devoted
Former
Persecuted
Race
Rap
Servant
Unwavering
Years
Allah
Am
Tormented
Been
Name
Cause
Enemies
His
Reasons
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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.
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Breathe
Consciousness
Growth
Individual
Jihad
Newborn
Struggle
Womb
Attach
Collective
Result
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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.
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America
Mean
Pie
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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 /
Commitment
Consciousness
Creator
Deeds
Good Deeds
Remembrance
Struggle
Successful
Demands
Requires
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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.
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Jobs
Teacher
Classroom
Closest
Household
Masters
Teach
Teaching
Acquired
Begins
Convey
Student
Muslim
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