H. Rap Brown Quotes

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

Government should not deny to any of its citizens that which it gives to other citizens.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

We don’t have second class citizens in this country.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

I want to make things equal.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

Equality ... is the result of human organization.... We are not born equal.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating restriction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

Discrimination will impair democracy.