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. – H. Rap Brown
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.’ – 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 collective. – H. Rap Brown
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That’s oppression in this country. – H. Rap Brown
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! – 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. – H. Rap Brown
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. – H. Rap Brown
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves. – H. Rap Brown
There’s no such thing as second class citizenship. That’s like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. – H. Rap Brown
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we’re making progress; but Huey’s chair’s empty. – H. Rap Brown
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
The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other. – H. Rap Brown
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. – H. Rap Brown
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
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. – H. Rap Brown
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. – H. Rap Brown
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. – H. Rap Brown
