H. Rap Brown Quotes
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
Brown, H. Rap. "Speech at the 'Free Huey' Rally." Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, CA. 17 Feb. 1968. Speech.
Hopkins was complaining about the fact that England could tax the colonies and thereby take their property without their consent made the American colonists in the “miserable condition of slaves.” Essentially the fundamental complaint of the Americans was this and in a decade it would erupt as the American Revolution. At the same time, Hopkins was a slave owner and yet saw nothing wrong with that.
He was making a generalization based on his historical study of nations and societies.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist and convicted felon who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. During a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice.
