H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin,, also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-livedalliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice. He is perhaps most famous for his proclamation during that period that "violence is as American as cherry pie," as well as once stating that "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down." He is also known for his autobiography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth4 October 1943
CountryUnited States of America
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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.
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.
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.
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.
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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.