They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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