You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERPig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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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