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 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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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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The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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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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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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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