The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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 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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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