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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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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