I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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