We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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We knew that in the end what they were clashing over was us, what to do with the blacks, and whether or not to start treating us as human beings.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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