""Violence is a part of America's culture," he said during a 1967 news conference. "... America 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.""
""I'm not dissatisfied with what I did," he told an audience in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1998. "But Islam has allowed things to be clearer. ... We have to be concerned about the welfare of ourselves and those around us, and that comes through submission to God and the raising of one's consciousness.""
"He once stated that violence was "as American as cherry pie.""
H. Rap Brown, who later took the name Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, died at age 82 at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina while serving a life sentence for killing a Georgia sheriff's deputy. His widow reported he had been suffering from cancer and had been transferred to Butner in 2014 from a federal prison in Colorado. Brown chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served as minister of justice for the Black Panther Party. He was arrested in 1971 in a robbery that led to a shootout, converted to the Dar-ul Islam movement in prison, moved to Atlanta in 1976, opened a grocery and became an Imam.
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