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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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