In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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 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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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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