History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVEREvery 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.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
-
-
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 -
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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 -
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
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 -
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
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 -
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER