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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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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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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 you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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 price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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