All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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 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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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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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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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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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