You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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