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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

And understand: class differences will not save you.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

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

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

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!

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

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

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.