In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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