H. Rap Brown Quotes

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

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

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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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• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

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• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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

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

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

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

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

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• You’ve got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

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

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

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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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• No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

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

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Birth:	4th October, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist

About

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice. He is perhaps most famous for his proclamation during that period that "violence is as American as cherry pie", as well as once stating that "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down". He is also known for his autobiography Die Nigger Die!

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