You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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