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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Account Community Country Pig Power
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Command Respect
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Hate Human Being Love Oneself Price
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change Country Hope Racism
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Community Die Heart Oath
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Decision Force War
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Dead Except God War
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deal God Himself Love Misery People
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deny Jail Prison

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

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