The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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 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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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