If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe 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.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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 most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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