They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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