The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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