Quotes from 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.

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

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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

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!

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

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

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.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

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.

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

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

You cannot legislate an attitude.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

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

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