H. Rap Brown Quotes

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H. Rap Brown

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 4, 1943

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

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

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

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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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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.

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There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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