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H. Rap Brown
American
Activist
About the author
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Talking
#Revolution
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#People
#Country
#Poverty
#Oppression
#Causes
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Class
#Citizenship
No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Saying
#Class
#Middle class
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Struggle
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Progress
#Lies
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Poverty
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#People
#Country
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,
American
Activist
#People
#Will
#American
#Revolution
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,
American
Activist
#Man
If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#America
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#People
#Today
#Country
#Politics
#Revolution
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Years
#Poverty
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#War
#Politics
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Country
#Justice
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,
American
Activist
#People
#Will
#Old
#Leadership
#Revolution
#African
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,
American
Activist
#People
#Law
#Country
#Argument
#Talking
#Laws
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Luxury
#Class
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,
American
Activist
#People
#Will
#Community
#Alliance
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Will
#Class
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#American
#Violence
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
H. Rap Brown,
American
Activist
#Class
#Middle class