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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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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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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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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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