Too much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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I 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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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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