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  • The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

    Military   Pie   Violence  
    Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7
  • 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.

    Country   Fall   Talking  
  • Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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

    Lying   Progress   Deceit  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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!

    Men   Black   Doe  
  • Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

  • 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.

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

    Class   Middle   Divides  
  • You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

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

    "Opening statements expected in trial of ex-Black Panther". www.cnn.com. February 19, 2002.
  • When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

    H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.7, Chicago Review Press
  • Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

    Country   People   Black  
  • 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.

    Teacher   Jobs   Teaching  
  • Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

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

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

  • 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.

    Hands   People   Leader  
  • 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.

    Mean   Pie   America  
    "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.
  • You cannot legislate an attitude.

  • I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

    Lying   Justice   Rewards  
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  • Born: October 4, 1943