Everybody changes, not just me.
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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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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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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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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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