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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.

Eldridge Cleaver

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Deny Jail Prison
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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Black Lives Matter Clash Human Being
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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Citizen Country Dreams Nightmare Revolution Struggle
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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Cruel Human People Teaching
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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Arms Black Embrace Freedom Racism Slave White Women
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Dead Except God War
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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Change Country Hope Racism
The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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Enemy History Love Revolutionn Statement
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Brillance Champion Country Demand Dull Mind Powerful
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
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Deal God Himself Love Misery People
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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Country Democracy Fault Politics System World
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Beyond Civil Creation Human Rights
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
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Account Community Country Pig Power
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Command Respect
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Decision Force War

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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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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