H. Rap Brown

Activist

United States

1943 - Present

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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.
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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.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
H. Rap Brown