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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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Deal God Himself Love Misery People
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power
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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Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
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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Change Country Hope Racism
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Command Respect
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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Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
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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Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
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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Onject Revolution Wisdom
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Blood Color History Human Red
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Friendship Involvement Problem Relationship Solution

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