You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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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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Everybody changes, not just me.
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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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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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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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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