I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI 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.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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 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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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