You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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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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