Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVEREverybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWhat America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERAll the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERToo much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI 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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