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 CLEAVERPig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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