You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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