Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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