You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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