The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one’s thing the Revolution.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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Everybody changes, not just me.
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I 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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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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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 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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The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
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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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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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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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