Quotes by H. Brown

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
• No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
• So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
• 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.
• The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
• You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
• You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
• 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.
• Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
• 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.
• And understand: class differences will not save you.