If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERAll the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIn prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWhat America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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