All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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 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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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 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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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