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.
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 CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERToo much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVEREverybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERPig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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