We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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 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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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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