Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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 most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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.
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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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