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Eldridge Cleaver

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deny Jail Prison
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Onject Revolution Wisdom
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Community Die Heart Oath
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Each Other Fake Feeling Genuine Object Tender
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Dead Except God War
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deal God Himself Love Misery People
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Command Respect
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Decision Force War
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
Too much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Agreement Chat Conservation Kill One Liner
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change Country Hope Racism

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