H. Rap Brown Quotes

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Watch out barefoot, the black man is coming.

So don’t follow me up and down your market. or your little chop suey ass will be a target. So pay your respects to the black fist or we’ll burn your store right down to a crisp.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

You whites make all the ammunition.

One authority, one gun…

Torture is a very humiliating experience. The goal is not to obtain information but to punish and break you so that you won't do anything against the authorities. You are made an example to others so that they will be too terrified to do anything either.

The Cambodians [Khmer] are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.

Can you be cruel and proud? For a great man among the commonalty, and in particular among such as we shall have to do with, will not be thought anything worth if he be not feared and dreaded, and at times renowned for his cruelty. It is thus that the Flemings wish to be governed; and among them men's lives should be no more valued, nor should they have more pity shown to them, than swallows or larks, which are caught in the proper season for the table.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest

Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb.

The Ballot or the Bullet