The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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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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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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 myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
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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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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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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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