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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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I’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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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