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" You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize. "
H. Rap Brown
Organize
You
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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. "
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" So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. "
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" We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" No such thing as a Dixiecrat. "
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" 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. "
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" The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. "
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" 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. "
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" I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. "
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" If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down. "
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" See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy. "
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" 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. "
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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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" When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. "
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