H. Rap Brown Quotes

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

The National Revolution has begun.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

If we can’t sit at the table of democracy, then we’ll knock the fucking legs off. But before we tear it completely down, they will move to build a better one, rather than see this one destroyed.