American - Activist | October 4, 1943 -
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown
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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.
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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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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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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!
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