Facts about H. Rap Brown

Occup.	Activist
From	USA
Born	October 4, 1943
Age	81 years

Summary

H. Rap Brown is a famous Activist from USA, he/she is 81 years old and still alive, born October 4, 1943.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 26 quotes who is written / told by Rap Brown.

26 Famous quotes by H. Rap Brown

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

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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty"

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

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"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford"

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

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"And understand: class differences will not save you"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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"There is no such thing as a black middle class"

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

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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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"No such thing as a Dixiecrat"

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

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