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

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

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

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.

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

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.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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

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

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

What better way to enslave a man than give him the vote and call him free? What does it profit a man to be able to vote when he has to choose between a Democrat and a Republican— Tweedledee and Tweedledum?

America is the ultimate denial of the theory of man’s continuous evolution.

The long-simmering anger at racism and economic injustice of alienated black youth in the ghettoes [always erupts] into violent and destructive urban insurrections. In every case these “riots” were triggered by police brutality or misconduct, most usually the killing or brutalizing of an unarmed black man.

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

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

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

Attack those concepts such as ‘third world.’ Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the ‘first world.

Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

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

Being a man is the continuing battle for one’s life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

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.

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

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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.

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

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.

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.