H. RAP BROWN

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

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

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.