Zitat des Tages von H. Rap Brown:
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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.
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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.
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!
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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.
If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
And understand: class differences will not save you.
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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 only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.