Quotes by H. Rap Brown

About H. Rap Brown:

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin 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!. He is currently serving a life sentence for murder following the 2000 shooting of two Fulton County Sheriff's deputies. One deputy, Ricky Kinchen, died in the shooting.
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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.

H. Rap Brown

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

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

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

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

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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

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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.

H. Rap Brown

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 collect...

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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.'

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameH. Rap Brown
  • DescriptionAmerican activist
  • AliasesJamil Abdullah Al-Amin
  • BornOctober 4, 1943
  • ProfessionActivist