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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.

Eldridge Cleaver

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Command Respect
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Account Community Country Pig Power
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change Country Hope Racism
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Deny Jail Prison
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Cruel Human People Teaching
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Community Die Heart Oath
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Attempt Earth Gain Level Manhood
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Decision Force War
Everybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Change One Liner Reality
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Brillance Champion Country Demand Dull Mind Powerful

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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