The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWhat America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVEREvery 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERPig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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