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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.

Eldridge Cleaver

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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Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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Each Other Fake Feeling Genuine Object Tender
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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Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
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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Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
Too much agreement kills chat.
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Agreement Chat Conservation Kill One Liner
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
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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Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Command Respect
Everybody changes, not just me.
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Change One Liner Reality
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Community Die Heart Oath
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
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War

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