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H. Rap Brown

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Also known as Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, Jamil al-Amin, Hubert Gerold Brown

American activist (1943-2025)

Person · Open Library

Born
1943
Works
3

Top works

  • SNCC speaks for itself
  • Revolution by the book
  • Die, nigger, die!

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1943-10-04
Active to
2025-11-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
600
Total plays
1,820

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Quotes

  • I see America for what it is. It's another Germany. It's the Fourth Reich. America makes Hitler's and Germany's records look good.
  • Of course I'm a racist, just like Lyndon Johnson, like Kennedy, like Lincoln, like Washington, like all Negroes—because all Negroes are racist. Everybody who lives in America is either racist or will become one. One cannot stay neutral: one must stand on one side or the other, without mixing colors or ideas—white with white, black with black. Integration is impossible. We are not interested in it and don't want it.
  • When a race of people is oppressed within a system that fosters the idea of competitive individualism, the political polarization around individual interests prevents group interests. Each negro prides himself on his ability to reason or think as an individual. Therefore, any gains are to the individual and not to the group.
  • America is a country that makes you want things, but doesn't give you the means to get those things.
  • But this is the kind of education we were subjected to. Education ain't just what comes out of the books, but it's everything that goes on in the school. And if you leave school hating yourself, then it doesn't matter how much you know. Education in america has to be viewed as propaganda machinery. All educational systems are propaganda machines, but for Black people, the american educational system is a propaganda machine we don't need. It propagandizes against us. It makes us hate ourselves.
  • I was always at odds with teachers. There are certain things in negro institutions that you have to do if you expect to make good grades and certain things you don't do. One of those things is you don't talk back. You don't challenge the existing order. Well, I challenge anything that doesn't make good sense.

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