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
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
And understand: class differences will not save you.
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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.
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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.
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.
You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.