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Everybody changes, not just me.

Eldridge Cleaver

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
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
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
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
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
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deny Jail Prison
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beautiful Black Myth Strong 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change Country Hope Racism
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Blood Color History Human Red
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Dead Except God War
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Account Community Country Pig Power
Too much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Agreement Chat Conservation Kill One Liner
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
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.

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