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 CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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