Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
Interpretation
This quote challenges binary classifications of society, urging a reevaluation of how we categorize people based on race and economic status.
H. Rap Brown highlights the flawed nature of categorizing societies into 'first' and 'third' worlds based on socioeconomic status and race. By pointing out that people of color constitute the majority globally, he argues for a shift in perspective that uplifts marginalized voices, suggesting that such classifications perpetuate inequality and disregard the reality of demographic distributions.
In practice
In a discussion about global development and social justice, this quote can help emphasize the need to rethink outdated classifications.
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
The light is the left hand of darkness.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
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