I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERHistory could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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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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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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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 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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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
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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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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
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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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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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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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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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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