All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERAll the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERPig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIn prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI 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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