Quotes By 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.

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

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

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

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.