I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVERRespect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
More Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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Too much agreement kills chat.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
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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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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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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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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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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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