With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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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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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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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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