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!

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.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.