With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe 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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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.
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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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