H. Rap Brown Quotes (30 Quotes)

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

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

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

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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.

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

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, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

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

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

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

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

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!

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

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

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

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.

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.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

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

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.