I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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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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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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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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