H. Rap Brown Quotes

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

My father believed in armed struggle.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Only force would produce social change.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out