The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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