We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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 price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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