With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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 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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