Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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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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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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