They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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