You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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