You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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