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H. Rap Brown Quotes

1943–2025 United States

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 – November 23, 2025), formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s

United States
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Also known as: Hubert Gerold Brown, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin

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5 quotes

America is a country that makes you want things, but doesn't give you the means to get those things.

Die Nigger Die (1969)

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

I don't give a shit who says what. If the muthafucka is wrong, he's wrong. ... I don't respect wrong and I don't respect authority that represents wrong.

In this country, authority is a cover for wrong. I don't respect wrong and I don't respect authority that represents wrong.

Die Nigger Die (1969)

I see America for what it is. It's another Germany. It's the Fourth Reich. America makes Hitler's and Germany's records look good.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: H. Rap Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.