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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

Eldridge Cleaver

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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Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
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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Change Country Hope Racism
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Community Die Heart Oath
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Blood Color History Human Red
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Command Respect
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deal God Himself Love Misery People
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood

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