The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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