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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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