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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Onject Revolution Wisdom
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Dead Except God War
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Community Die Heart Oath
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deal God Himself Love Misery People
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deny Jail Prison
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Each Other Fake Feeling Genuine Object Tender
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Blood Color History Human Red
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

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