H. Rap Brown Quotes

Things that used to be illicit are not illicit today. Licit products of yesterday, may be illicit today.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.

... legislating to regulate cultural change is like lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb.

We begin by trying to alter what we can see, but the tremors which our action starts sometimes run through the entire depth our society; levels to which we pay no conscious attention are stirred, and all kinds of unintended results ensue.

Changing people’s expectation is the hardest thing to do.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure - stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

I'm committed to structural changes.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

Companies can change. Culture can change.

It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.