Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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 price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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