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.
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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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 object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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