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1. "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." ~ H. Rap Brown

2. "I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie." ~ H. Rap Brown

3. "See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave." ~ H. Rap Brown

4. "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." ~ H. Rap Brown

5. "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." ~ H. Rap Brown

6. "They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class." ~ H. Rap Brown

7. "Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics." ~ H. Rap Brown

8. "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." ~ H. Rap Brown

9. "No such thing as a Dixiecrat." ~ H. Rap Brown

10. "See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy." ~ H. Rap Brown

11. "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." ~ H. Rap Brown

12. "The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty." ~ H. Rap Brown

13. "And understand: class differences will not save you." ~ H. Rap Brown

14. "So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves." ~ H. Rap Brown

15. "If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down." ~ H. Rap Brown

16. "One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty." ~ H. Rap Brown

17. "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!" ~ H. Rap Brown

18. "The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other." ~ H. Rap Brown

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Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and destabilized all sorts of political regions you couldn't even pronounce, let alone draft up constitutional monarchies for, even if you'd been far more careful about leaving your toys strewn about everywhere when you tire yourself out with anarchy and run on home, I'd say you really are the lowest sort."
Author: Catherynne M. Valente