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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.

Eldridge Cleaver

We 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 CLEAVER

Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Onject Revolution Wisdom
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Blood Color History Human Red
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
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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Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Brillance Champion Country Demand Dull Mind Powerful
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Community Die Heart Oath
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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Change Country Hope Racism
Everybody changes, not just me.
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Change One Liner Reality
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power

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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