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

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" 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. "

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

" There is no such thing as a black middle class. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

" No such thing as a Dixiecrat. "

" And understand: class differences will not save you. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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