History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou 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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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