With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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 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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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