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H. Rap Brown [1943-0] American

Rank: 101
Activist

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, also known as H. Rap Brown, 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.

Family, Knowledge, Leadership, Love, Men, Politics, Teacher, Truth

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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.		101
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.		102
And understand: class differences will not save you.		103
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.	Love, Truth	104
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.		105
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.	Men	106
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.		107
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.		108
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.		109
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.	Family, Knowledge, Teacher	110
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.		111
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.		112
Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.		113
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!		114
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.'		115
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.		116
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.	Politics	117
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.		118
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.		119
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.		120
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.		121
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.		122
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.		123
If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.		124
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.		125
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.		126
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.		201
There is no such thing as a black middle class.		202
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.		203
No such thing as a Dixiecrat.		204
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.		205
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.	Leadership	206
You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.		207
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.		208
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.		209
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.		210

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