Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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 price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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