You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERToo much agreement kills chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVEREverybody changes, not just me.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIn prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERYou 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.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERWe 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 CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERSometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERI’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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 CLEAVERIf you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERIf God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThe most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERThey use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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