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 CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.
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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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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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