You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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