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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.

Eldridge Cleaver

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Blood Color History Human Red
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
Everybody changes, not just me.
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Change One Liner Reality
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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Deal God Himself Love Misery People
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Dead Except God War
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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Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
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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Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Command Respect
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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Change Country Hope Racism
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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Community Die Heart Oath
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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Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights

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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