Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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