You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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 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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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