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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

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Dead Except God War
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Community Die Heart Oath
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
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Friendship Involvement Problem Relationship Solution
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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Change Country Hope Racism
Too much agreement kills chat.
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Agreement Chat Conservation Kill One Liner
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Account Community Country Pig Power
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Onject Revolution Wisdom
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
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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Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

Command Respect
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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Beautiful Black Myth Strong Women

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