We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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 you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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