In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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