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" And understand: class differences will not save you. "
You
Understand
Differences
" 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. "
Leadership
Leader
People
" 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.' "
People
First
Think
" Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. "
Must
Oppression
People
" 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. "
Argument
Down
Law
" Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. "
Luxury
We Cannot
Class
" 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. "
Black
People
Decide
" If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down. "
America
Around
Burn
" 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. "
Revolution
American
Black
" I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. "
Say
Pie
Violence
" 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. "
Love
Truth
Injustice
" 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. "
Living
Look
Growth
" 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. "
Race
Name
More
" No such thing as a Dixiecrat. "
Thing
" One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. "
Chair
Tell
Progress
" Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. "
Revolution
Institutions
Human
" See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. "
Slave
See
You
" See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy. "
Stinks
See
Justice
" So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves. "
Organize
Country
Black
" 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. "
Knowledge
Teacher
Job
" 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! "
Beat
You
Head
" The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. "
Revolution
Politics
People
" The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder. "
Only
The Only Thing
Gun
" The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. "
Eliminate
Designed
Poverty
" 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. "
Men
Commitment
Together
" There is no such thing as a black middle class. "
Middle Class
Black
Class
" There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. "
Citizenship
Class
Like
" They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. "
Class
You
Us
" 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. "
Kind
Struggle
Successful
" We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. "
Happen
Most
Struggle
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