I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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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 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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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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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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