Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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I 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.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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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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