Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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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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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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Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
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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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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’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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