Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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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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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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 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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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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