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H. Rap Brown Biography

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), also known as H. Rap Brown, was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice.

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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Black, Causes, Country, People, Poverty

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

God, Obligation, Obligations, Society, Understand

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Poverty, Program, Designed, Eliminate

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Country, Mirrors, Belief, Unforgiving, Share

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

Deceit, Lies, Lying, Progress, Tell

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Afford, Class, Luxury, Structure

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.

Country, Fall, Talking, Confined, Same, Black

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Era, Eras, Revolution, Talking

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.

Evildoers, Justice, Lying, Rewards, Truth

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

Black, Define, Define Yourself, Heritage

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.

Alliance, Black, Community, Everybody, Organize, People

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!

Beat, Beats, Black, Doe, Head, Men

You cannot legislate an attitude.

Attitude, Legislate

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave, See, Free

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

Military, Pie, Violence, American, Say

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.

Basis, Commitment, Consciousness, Men, Social, Together

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

America, Burn, Come, Down, Gonna, Ifs

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Law, Body, Made, Representation, Legally, Morally

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Conditions, Create, Individual, Rebellion, Rebellions