The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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 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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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