You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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