We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe 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 have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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