H. Rap Brown Quotes

• Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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  Rebellion, Individual, Conditions

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• I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

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  Mean, Pie, America

  "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.

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• This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

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  Country, Mirrors, Belief

  "Opening statements expected in trial of ex-Black Panther". www.cnn.com. February 19, 2002.

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

  H. Rap Brown

  Obligación

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.7, Chicago Review Press

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• En cuanto a la revolución, creo que será una revolución de los desposeídos de este país: los mexicano-americanos, los puertorriqueños-americanos, los indios-americanos y los negros.

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  País, Creer, Gente

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• 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.

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  Country, Fall, Talking

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• 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.

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  Believe, Men, Battle

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

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  Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave

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• 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.

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  Gente, Comunidad, Negro

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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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  Pregnancy, Second Chance, Class

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• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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  Poverty, Program

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Together, Consciousness

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• Ataca esos conceptos como "tercer mundo". Piénsalo. Si lo miramos en términos de números, la gente de color es mayoría en este mundo. Deberíamos ser el 'primer mundo'.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Color

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

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  America, Ifs

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• Debes empezar a definirte a ti mismo. Debes empezar a definir tu herencia negra.

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  Black, Heritage, Define Yourself

  H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• 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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  Profesor, Empleo, Enseñanza

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

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  Law, Body, Made

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• You cannot legislate an attitude.

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  Actitud

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

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  Military, Pie, Violence

  Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7

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

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  Talking, Eras, Revolution

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

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  País, Gente, Negro

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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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  Manos, Gente, Líder

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

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  Class, Middle, Divides

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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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  Men, Black, Doe

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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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  Lying, Progress, Deceit

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