You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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